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12 January 2010
Zambia is pumping money into the commercial farming sector in the hope of turning around its economy. With overseas investors being invited to run farms on prime agricultural land, can smaller Zambian farmers hope to compete?
27 November 2009
Ghana's government is keen to raise more income from tax. Over the past 30 years successive governments have tried to push through tax reforms but some have been violently opposed by the public, meaning the current government is taking a different approach.
25 November 2009
Street hawkers face a daily battle with the authorities to sell their goods on the streets of Nairobi, finding themselves on the wrong side of the law as the Kenyan government tries to bring informal vendors into the mainstream economy.
2 June 2009
In Tanzania gas from Songo Songo island is being converted into low-cost electricity in the capital Dar es Salaam. But the local people living near the gas reserves have no access to the energy.
17 July 2007
Microfinance has been hailed as a powerful weapon against poverty. In Uganda, the small loans business has boomed. But credit that first appears attractive can later become a debt-trap.
1 February 2007
Many experts believe donations of food aid to poorer countries makes it harder to recover from a food crisis. A scheme in western Zambia gives assistance in cash.
3 November 2006
An estimated 700,000 Nepalis work overseas, but unskilled workers often take on difficult and dangerous jobs to fulfil their dreams.
20 September 2006
In Ghana, the government has told banks to help get small and medium-sized businesses off the ground. Isaac Tetteh took aspiring businessman Owusu Korentang to find some backers in Accra.
15 August 2006
South Korea is a poster child for rapid economic growth. So what does this model involve? In the second of a two-part series, Hyun-Sung Khang investigates the South Korean story.
14 August 2006
South Korea is a poster child for rapid economic growth. So what does this model involve? In the first of a two-part series, Hyun-Sung Khang investigates the South Korean story.
14 August 2006
A Ugandan school is trying to tackle local corruption. Joel Okao Tema visited Chawente Primary School in Apac district to meet the children keeping an eye on the books.
6 July 2006
Although Nepal’s national plan for economic development and poverty reduction views women's advancement as key, most women remain untouched by government efforts towards equality.
3 May 2006
Faced with dwindling acres of land, and thousands of landless people, Malawi's government is giving away plots to the very poorest. But can it work in the long term?
16 February 2006
In Zambia getting a decent job straight out of school is a real struggle because of cutbacks, privatisation, and serious competition. Arnold Tutu asks young people about their hopes.
15 December 2005
Tourism in Ghana is on the up, and the foreigners are bringing in much-needed hard currency. But the tourism authorities and jobless young people have clashed.
26 October 2005
In Kenya’s Ikolomani area the risks of gold mining are high and the rewards usually small - but many are willing to work at it. Abhullahi Boru visited teenage prospectors.
8 April 2005
Jobs in Malawi are scarce. At the last count only 13 per cent of the country was employed. But local groups are making efforts to get young people into work.
3 March 2005
One way to change women’s lives is to give them loans to start businesses. Eric Kadenge met a woman in Nairobi who has managed to left sex work behind.
8 November 2004
Many in Ghana’s capital Accra say electricity costs are too high while wages stay low - even though the government still cushions prices through subsidies. Edwin Kumah-Drah reports.
26 May 2004
In Malawi household income and life expectancy are falling. Hilary Mbobe visited a village where a father resorted to selling his underage daughter into marriage to get out of debt.
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