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Barefoot power lights up rural Africa
Izael Pereira Da Silva and Boldewijn Sloet | 17 September 2012 |
tags: Africa, development, solar energy
Two Australian entrepreneurs are behind a company that is transforming lives at the bottom of the social pyramid.


People are the wealth of nations
Vincenzina Santoro | 11 November 2010 |
tags: development, gender equality, United Nations
But women are yet to be valued properly, even by the UN.


Saving the lives of women and children
Brian Lilley | 01 February 2010 |
tags: abortion, development, health
The G8 appears set to take on the issues of child and maternal mortality. Can they do it while saving lives, not destroying them?


Tough love just for Africa?
Chinwuba Iyizoba | 24 September 2009 |
tags: Africa, Barack Obama, development, politics
Despite the rhetoric of Western leaders, it appears the West is happy to keep Africa poor to exploit its natural wealth.


A new agenda for the world’s women
Carolyn Moynihan | 12 September 2009 |
tags: development, poverty, security, women
What’s behind the discovery that women are the world’s greatest unexploited resource for fighting poverty and terrorism?


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