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Featured in issue 083

Lessons of the '70s, Needs of the '80s

A New Internationalist round-up of development issues in the last decade.

Where the third World is First

Anuradha Vittachi on what the developing world has to teach.

The Hundred Hour Week

A report on women and world development in the 1980s

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Diary of a Decade

by Dexter Tiranti

The Unwashed

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The Decade that Limped

Peter Adamson on why we’ve been trying the wrong key in the development lock.

India in Africa

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Keep this page for ten years

Ten predictions for the 1980s.

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Changing the structure

Interviews with Gamani Corea and Mahbub ul Haq

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It's been half bricks, half rocks

Talking to the poor in three continents.

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