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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
US soldiers boarding a helicopter in Afghanistan in late 2001.

Afghanistan

Unfinished business

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by Nawid Paigham
President Bolsonaro (right) grew tired of Health Minister Mandetta’s expert advice. This picture was taken before Covid-19, in summer 2019.

Right-wing populism

Divisive pandemic response

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by Gilberto Scofield Jr.
A Filipino nurse working in a German hospital before the Covid-9 pandemic.

Health professionals

The impact of brain drain

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by Richa Arora
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
Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.

Green power

Behind schedule

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

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by Katja Dombrowski
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
Marketing charcoal in rural Uganda.

Infrastructure

Destructive biomass demand

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by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki
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