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Introducing key global development challenges
Introducing key global development challenges

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Elizabeth Mc Donnell, in collaboration with the DD871 module team.

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Course image: Photovoltaic power generation, China. Photo: yangna/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Figure 1: Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash

Figure 2: from World Inequality Report 2022 (c) World Inequality Lab

Figure 3: Photo © Bridgeman Images

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Figure 5: Photo: Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash

Figure 6: Interaction Institute for Social Change | Artist: Angus Maguire; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/

Figure 7: Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806. / © Florilegius / Bridgeman Images

Figure 8: Photo © Bridgeman Images

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Figure 11: Photo: Mortaza Shahed on Unsplash

Figure 12: Photo: Tânia Mousinho on Unsplash

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Video 1: Used with the permission of Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

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