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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
Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.

Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Protest against a coal plant that Kenya wants to build with funding from China in the port city of Lamu.

Fossil fuel industry

China continues to finance coal power around the world

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Selling smuggled petrol on the roadside.

Fuel prices

Strained relations

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by Karim Okanla
Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.

Green power

Behind schedule

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
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
Marketing charcoal in rural Uganda.

Infrastructure

Destructive biomass demand

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
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