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Universal basic income
Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

The Covid-19 crisis is the right time to test UBI policies

Maternal health
Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo

Difficult delivery

Untrained ‘backyard’ midwives fill a gap in Zimbabwe’s health system

UN forecast
Sarah Josef

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

UN statistics show that migration has an impact on how individual countries’ populations develop

Blog
Monika Hellstern

Gender implications of Covid-19

Covid-19 hits women harder, warns OECD

Pandemic side-effects
Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

Two daily meals of porridge

Uganda’s poor are struggling with the Covid-19 lockdown

Education
Gildaneliz Barrientos

A boost for women

A start-up school teaching work skills to women aims to narrow Guatemala’s gender gap

Legal action
Raphael Mweninguwe

Malawi judge blocks lockdown

Malawi’s Covid-19 lockdown has been suspended by legal action

Employment
Joachim von Braun
Tekalign Sakketa

The urgency of public works programmes

Labour-intensive public employment schemes build vital infrastructure and alleviate poverty at the same time

Pandemic response
Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
Axel Michaelowa

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

Neglect of how the urban poor live, is making Covid-19 responses dangerous in many low-income countries

Development finance
Bruno Wenn
Bruno Wenn

Africa’s private sector needs support

In Covid-19 crisis, EDFI members can ease the plight of private-sector companies in low-income countries

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
An Indian student expresses her concern about global heating
Biogas innovation: Clean energy and fertiliser for Malawi’s farmers
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Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Improving female entrepreneurs’ self-esteem
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Kenyan military ordered to end HIV discrimination in recruitment
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

HIV/AIDS still haunts South Africa
NGO documents worsening plight of Afghan women
Coping with strife, climate impacts and a broken economy
Voodoo allows a holistic view of the cosmos
Brazil’s colonial legacies and current challenges