The vanishing middle
At dawn in Lusaka, Zambia, a widowed mother leaves home to sell tomatoes at a roadside market. She works from sunrise until dusk, yet every week she watches the price of mealie meal, cooking oil and transport climb faster than her earnings. Thousands of kilometres away in Dhaka,
At dawn in Lusaka, Zambia, a widowed mother leaves home to sell tomatoes at a roadside market. She works from sunrise until dusk, yet every week she watches the price of mealie meal, cooking oil and transport climb faster than her earnings. Thousands of kilometres away in Dhaka,
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