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

Blog

Gender implications of Covid-19

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by Monika Hellstern
Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.

Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Selling smuggled petrol on the roadside.

Fuel prices

Strained relations

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by Karim Okanla
Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.

Power shortages

When the lights go out

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by Derrick Silimina
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
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 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
Nepal is one of the countries in which the birth rate is below the replacement level.

Population trends

Demographic transition

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by Alisa Kaps
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