Africa’s informal economy: a burden and lifeline
Abidjan (AFP) - Across the pavements, residential areas and public spaces of African cities, the informal economy is booming under ...
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Talks towards international panel to tackle ‘inequality emergency’ begin at UN
Geneva (AFP) - Talks towards creating a new international panel to address extreme wealth disparities, modelled on the United Nations' ...
Viral drone video fuels debate about Rio favela tourism
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) - A line of tourists touch up their makeup before strutting across a rooftop in ...
No bread, no fuel, no dollars: how Bolivia went from boom to bust
La Paz (AFP) - A bread roll has become a symbol of a severe economic crisis in Boliva that looks ...
No bread, no fuel, no dollars: how Bolivia went from boom to bust
La Paz (AFP) - A bread roll has become a symbol of a severe economic crisis in Boliva that looks ...
Cuban minister resigns after downplaying poverty
Havana (AFP) - The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over her claim that people ...
Cuban president addresses anger over ‘there are no beggars’ claim
Havana (AFP) - Cuba's president was forced to step in Tuesday after a minister's assertion that "there are no beggars" ...
Public or private? Funding debate splits reeling aid sector
Seville (Spain) (AFP) - As cuts by rich donors decimate aid budgets for the world's most vulnerable, private financing has ...
UN aid meeting seeks end to Global South debt crisis
Seville (Spain) (AFP) - More than 100 nations attending a UN aid conference pledged this week to help defuse the ...
UK govt braces for crunch welfare reforms vote amid major rebellion
London (AFP) - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the most serious internal rebellion of his year-long premiership on Tuesday, ...
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