Indigenous handicraft weavers are learning marketing, quality control and costing skills through an MDG-F-funded programme to boost incomes for the country’s poorest people.

New report by MDG-F/IDS outlines strategies for putting equity and social justice at the heart of development efforts.

María José Blandón Villavicencio, a Nicaraguan housewife turned coffee producer, has a sales record that would make any entrepreneur green with envy: 1600% growth in her first year.

As the West Bank Palestinian leadership was readying its September statehood bid at the United Nations General Assembly, 20-year-old Mariam Abu Khaled was preparing for a different drama.