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How a transgender tobacco farmer in Zimbabwe is fighting for dignity

In a country where queer people face exclusion, formal agriculture offers rare stability. Yet significant risks remain.

by Lungelo Ndhlovu

30.03.2026

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Lining up to get water in Chennai in the summer of 2019.

Water crisis

Vital resource

by Sabine Balk

27.05.2020

Duflo and Banerjee in Stockholm in 2019.

Economics

Count in human beings

by Hans Dembowski

22.05.2020

Sharing responsibility: graffiti in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city.

Shared responsibility

Debt relief for poorest countries

by Kathrin Berensmann

14.05.2020

A Filipino nurse working in a German hospital before the Covid-9 pandemic.

Health professionals

The impact of brain drain

by Richa Arora

07.05.2020

Many informal businesses become unviable in lockdown conditions: tea seller in Cairo in fall 2019.

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

by Markus Loewe

05.05.2020

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

by Sarah Josef

03.05.2020

Garment factory workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, have been sent home as factories have been closed.

Blog

Gender implications of Covid-19

by Monika Hellstern

01.05.2020

Nigerian police officer arresting man for disobeying lockdown.

Pandemic response

Why lockdowns may prove deadly

by Katharina Michaelowa

by Axel Michaelowa

19.04.2020

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

Blog

Covid-19 as seen by World Bank board member

by Hans Dembowski

15.04.2020

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

IDPs

Greater international commitment is needed

by Sabine Balk

14.04.2020