Poverty Reduction

Covid-19

African responses

Sub-Saharan health-care systems tend to be weak, so preventive action is needed in view of Covid-19

Pandemic

Scientific mind-set versus covidiots

Religious obscurantism is making it harder to prevent Covid-19

Human rights

Humanity or barbarism

EU refugee policy raises doubts that the EU takes human rights as seriously as it preaches to others

Covid-19

Global action urgently needed

An incomplete selection of important statements concerning global response to Covid-19

South Asia

Rule-bound governance matters

As civil-society space is shrinking in India, ODA agencies should consider their stance

Demographic dividend

Demographic change as a driver of economic growth

Will Africa really profit from a demographic dividend?

Population growth

Global challenge

Africa needs 450 million new jobs to benefit from the demographic dividend

Agriculture

Facing down the armyworm pest

Zambia is debating ways to stop the annual invasion of armyworms that attack its staple crops

Corona virus

Suddenly overwhelmed health sector

Why Iran is struggling to come to girps with the new corona virus

Public health

Paying a price

Even expensive vaccines prove quite cost-effective

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