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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

Family planning

Fast population growth

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
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
Beneficiaries of Zanzibar’s universal social pension in 2018.

Ageing and social protection

Africa’s demographic transition

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by Florian Jürgens
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 Pakistan, many brides are teenagers.

Teenager

What sex education is really about

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
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

Pandemic

Fear, anxiety and panic

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by Frank Masanta Jr.
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