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    Bangladesh

    A first person account: ‘I speak up for those who cannot’

    Sixty million workers across the developing world rely on the garment industry for their livelihoods. The vast majority of these workers are women. Jordan’s garment...
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    Livelihood

    Nepal to begin talks with UK on Equality for Gurkhas

    The Gurkha’s struggles for pay parity are steeped in history. Retired British Gurkha soldiers were left to fight a lonely battle for their salaries,...
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    Finance and Economy

    Sri Lankan trade unions campaign for hike in minimum wage

    Sri Lankan trade unions have launched a joint campaign to demand a rise of 10,000 Sri Lankan Rupees in the monthly minimum wage of...
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    Empowerment

    How to communicate with women entrepreneurs

    A project launched to identify the right communication strategies to reach out to women entrepreneurs of rural Bihar suggests such campaigns should focus on...
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    Civil society

    The precarity of urban households: demand of livelihood safety nets

    In comparison to rural India which consists of safety nets such as MGNREGA and larger PDS coverage, urban India lacks the crucial livelihood safety...
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    Civil society

    People are hungry, says hunger watch survey

    Many households had to go to sleep without eating. 41 per cent of general caste households surveyed reported that they had to sleep without...
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    Governance

    Global trade likely to be subdued in 2022, after record $28.5 trillion in 2021

    Global trade reached a record high in 2021, but it is expected to slow this year for many reasons including continuing delays in global...
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    Agriculture

    Peasants marginalized by big farmers

    Changing inequalities in farmland ownership and cultivation have reduced the smallholder or peasant share of food production. ‘Land grabs’, new laws and policies have...
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