Labor
Pakistan's truck art is famously lavish. But what motivates truckers to spend thousands of dollars on decorations?
China's investment in Zambia holds promise: billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. But after violent conflict between Zambian miners and their Chinese supervisors, does it also pose a threat?
Has Chinese investment helped or hurt Zambians? Or has it done both?
Control of Eastern Congo’s minerals has been a key driver in the fighting that has killed over 5 million people. A new project may have the answer – to produce conflict-free tin from a mine.
The World is a Carpet, by Pulitzer Center grantee Anna Badkhen, is an unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.
Tom Hundley shares this weeks reporting on the rare manuscripts smuggled from inside Timbuktu's hallowed libraries, child laborers in Burkina Faso and a conflict free tin mining initiative in the DRC...
A Dutch royal has a plan to end the violence that 'conflict minerals' have caused in South Kivu. Will it work?
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
In just a quarter century, one of the world's poorest countries has transformed itself into Africa's fourth-largest producer of gold. But at what cost to the children who labor in the mines?
On the rocky ground outside the Kollo gold mining village near the border between Burkina Faso and Ghana, about 100 people are working, 30 of them children.
In an uncertain economic climate, this prosperous Surrey town 27 miles southwest of London shows that the impact of government welfare cuts is not shared equally across the nation.
The Financial Times explains how it crunched the numbers in its austerity study.
Shiho Fukada has been photographing the effects of the economic crisis in Japan, where notions of personal prosperity and lifetime employment have eroded.