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Once a poverty-stricken rural area, Queshan County in China has transformed into a major violin-making hub that produces 400,000 instruments annually for export, driven by returning craftsmen who are now focusing on improving quality to rival traditional European standards.
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Can the challenges facing developing countries really be addressed separately? That is the question worth asking as the world marks five years since the Global Development Initiative (GDI) was proposed. African and Chinese readers will recognise the familiar list: widening development gaps; food…
