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Building bridges between Zimbabwe’s diaspora and businesses at home

A new online platform connects Zimbabwean businesses to customers abroad and helps them foster trade and partnerships.

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by Lungelo Ndhlovu

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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
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
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
Copper smelting in Zambia: commodity prices have plummeted because of Covid-19.

Blog

Covid-19 as seen by World Bank board member

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by Hans Dembowski
Children in Al-Karama – a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Syria.

IDPs

Greater international commitment is needed

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
In the global south it is usually the task of women and girls to collect firewood: girl in front of Mount Mulanje in Malawi.

Social inequality

Care-giving and household chores keep women poor

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by Dagmar Wolf
Faith makes strong: two Syrian girls from the Idlib region in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Study

Comforted by talking to God

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by Mira Enders
by Caterina Rohde-Abuba
The world should have learned lessons from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa: Health workers in Liberia in January 2015.

Coronavirus

Global responsibility

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by Anne Jung