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Why altruism is in shorter supply than the industry wants you to believe
Underwater world of Lake Malawi.
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Lake Malawi is considered a biodiversity treasure because almost all its species occurs nowhere else on the planet.
Kenya poverty.
Millions of people in Kenya still face poverty. But there's hope.
Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is eminently qualified to lead the World Bank.
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The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
Soweto in South Africa. Apartheid’s spacial planning still affects people’s lives.
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The high costs of finding work make it difficult for young South Africans to get jobs.
People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems.
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The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
A hawker sells clocks on a roadside in Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa state.
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Most of the things Nigerians complained about in 2015 are still unresolved – unemployment, poverty and economic disempowerment.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni (centre) arrives to deliver the mid-term budget statement to Parliament.
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South Africa needs to urgently step up its efforts to drive economic growth by harnassing the power of the state, as well as the markets.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Zimbabwean government’s brutal response to protests has dashed hopes for democracy under President Mnangagwa.
African National Congress supporters during the recent ANC Election manifesto launch in Durban.
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A great deal of analysis on South Africa and the ruling ANC seems to be based on wishful thinking, not concrete reality.
Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union from 1878.
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The desire to treat all those in poverty via one policy stems from the same impulses that led to reform of poor laws in the 19th century.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the launch of the governing ANC’s 2019 elections manifesto in Durban.
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The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
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A look at key data shows that the world is much better off today than ever before in history.
Australians are full of good ideas. Many made their debut in the pages of The Conversation.
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The Conversation played host to really important new ideas in 2018. Some will take years to develop. Others will never come to fruition. But they’re important.
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro after his swearing-in on Jan. 1, 2019, in the capital of Brasilia.
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Brazil’s new president – often called the ‘Trump of the tropics’ for his inflammatory, right-wing rhetoric – won over poorer voters by stoking fear and resentment. Can he make them happy?
The United Nations says people “left behind” include those vulnerable to the effects of climate change, but aren’t the furthest behind those damaging the environment? Here, a man rides a bicycle through a devastated Homs, Syria. Numerous studies say climate change was a factor in record-setting drought, one of several causes of the country’s civil war.
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The United Nations Declaration on sustainable development stresses “leaving no-one behind,” but what about the factors that cause many to be behind in the first place?
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New research shows high numbers of people in the UK are working multiple low-paid jobs.
Sahia moved to Singpur with her husband, where they planned to build a life.
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Sahia and her husband hoped to start a life in Singpur, a village in Bangladesh. But the riverside community found climate change made putting down roots impossible.
Poverty means many kids have to go to school without the right uniform - which can lead to being ostracised.
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Education through to the end of high school is a birthright in Australia but many kids are missing out on important parts of that birthright in ways that leave them feeling like losers and outsiders.
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The education system needs an urgent re-think to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a better chance in life.