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Electrical substation in Anantapur, India. Co-financed by KfW, it supplies electricity for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
A Filipino nurse working in a German hospital before the Covid-9 pandemic.

Health professionals

The impact of brain drain

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by Richa Arora
Energy efficiency is the “world’s first fuel”: Energy-efficient residential buildings funded by KfW Development Bank in New Delhi.

Renewables

Networks and storage needed

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
Many informal businesses become unviable in lockdown conditions: tea seller in Cairo in fall 2019.

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
Without immigration, Italy’s population would have dwindled: Pope Francis visiting a regional migration centre in Bologna in 2017.

UN forecast

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

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by Sarah Josef
Garment factory workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have been sent home as factories have been closed.

Blog

Gender implications of Covid-19

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by Monika Hellstern
Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

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by Katja Dombrowski
Not much scope for social distancing: a soldier enforcing South Africa’s lockdown in a township.

Global crisis

Debt swaps make sense

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by Christoph Hoffmann
Nigerian police officer arresting man for disobeying lockdown.

Pandemic response

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

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by Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
by Axel Michaelowa
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