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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
Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.

Power shortages

When the lights go out

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by Derrick Silimina
Work must go on – a carpenter in Benin in better times.

Development finance

Africa’s private sector needs support

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by Bruno Wenn
Hydroelectric power station on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.

Energy policy

Water over the dam

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by Derrick Silimina
Beneficiaries of Zanzibar’s universal social pension in 2018.

Ageing and social protection

Africa’s demographic transition

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by Florian Jürgens
India currently has comparatively few very young and very old persons: an infant and an old man from a rural community in Rajasthan

Societal Ageing

Turning grey

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by S. S. Sripriya
by S. Siva Raju
Nepal is one of the countries in which the birth rate is below the replacement level.

Population trends

Demographic transition

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by Alisa Kaps
Japan’s population is oldest in the world.

Population trends

More and more, older and older

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by Alisa Kaps
A woman washing her hands before entering a bus ticket office in Kigali, Rwanda.

Covid-19

African responses

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by Hans-Joachim Preuss
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