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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

Maternal health

Difficult delivery

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
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
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
Soldiers delivering maize flour to needy people in a Kampala suburb.

Pandemic side-effects

Two daily meals of porridge

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
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

Education

A boost for women

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by Gildaneliz Barrientos
Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.

Green power

Behind schedule

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
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