Guest post by Kate Pritchard, MCC.
Originally published by the Millennium Change Corporation (MCC). All photos are credited to them.
The Sub-Saharan nation of Malawi has made progress in human development over the past decade, but it remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Over half the population live in poverty, and 25% live in extreme poverty.
When MCC and the Government of Malawi began looking at the primary constraints to the country’s economic growth in 2009, one thing stood...
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Photo credit to ETAN COMICS, from their video “ETAN COMICS presents JEMBER | The first Ethiopian Superhero Comic Book”
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