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Orangutans are an endangered species – Borneo’s jungles are their habitat.

Preserving forests

Cutting the losses

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by Marianne Scholte
Lots of pigeons, no tourists: Kathmandu’s Basantapur Durbar Square, a UNESCO world heritage site in mid-May.

Hard-hit country

Resilience tested once again

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by Jonathan Menge
Tense relationship: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman in Riyadh in October 2019.

Tumbling oil price

End of an era

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by Aviva Freudmann

Companies

Oil majors feel the shock

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by Aviva Freudmann
Iraq’s economy depends on oil.

Oil markets

How the mighty have fallen

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

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

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by Markus Loewe
Markus Loewe
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
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
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
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