Another decade of living dangerously, despite a smart, engaged middle class and increasingly empowered poor.
Filed in: Indonesia
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Country Profile: Mauritius
Contradictions and extremes on an island country ‘invented by colonization’.
Filed in: Mauritius
- Lindsey Collen
- April 15, 2013
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Country Profile: Egypt
Maria Golia considers Egypt’s past, present and future.
Filed in: Egypt
- Maria Golia
- March 19, 2013
- 0
Country Profile: Peru
Peru is said to be booming but the poor would never know it. Stephanie Boyd reports.
- Stephanie Boyd
- December 28, 2012
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Country Profile - Grenada
Zoe Leigh Smith reports on the tiny Caribbean island’s strangling debt burden.
- Zoe Leigh Smith
- November 28, 2012
- 0
Cook Islands
Black pearls, cruise ships and lively politics: Mary Warren gives the lowdown on the South Pacific atolls.
Filed in: Cook Islands
- Mary Warren
- June 22, 2012
- 1
Country Profile: Guatemala
The country’s unequal wealth distribution and rapid population growth have made it one of the poorest in Latin America, writes Anna-Claire Bevan.
Filed in: Democracy Guatemala Human Rights Poverty
- Anna-Claire Bevan
- June 6, 2012
- 0
Country profile: Zambia
Mary Namakando digs out facts and ratings on one of Southern Africa’s most politically stable countries and probes President Sata’s grapple with corruption.
- Mary Namakando
- April 25, 2012
- 0
Kyrgyzstan
Nick Megoran revisits one of the poorest of the former Soviet republics and finds that instability, corruption and ethnic tensions remain.
Filed in: Kyrgyzstan
- Nick Megoran
- March 19, 2012
- 0
Papua New Guinea
A small group of islands with a long history
Filed in: Equality Papua New Guinea
- Cheryl Morris
- January 26, 2012
- 0
Federated States of Micronesia
A profile of one of the world’s most frequently colonized and loosely assembled nation-states.
- Mary Warren
- December 8, 2011
- 1
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