South Asia

Economic crisis

New 15/11/2022 – by Sundus Saleemi

Heavily indebted already, Islamabad wants more loans

Pakistan’s economic problems are rooted in structural weaknesses

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Covid-19

New 13/11/2022 – by Boro Baski

Fear and anguish added to pandemic pain in India

An Indian Covid-19 survivor shares his experience

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Global Governance

06/11/2022 – by Saleemul Huq

In Sharm el-Sheikh, loss and damage must be on the agenda

A Bangladeshi perspective on this year’s UN climate summit

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Gender disparities

04/11/2022 – by Sundus Saleemi

South Asian gender disparities get worse in economic crises

Economic downturns hit women and girls harder – for example in Pakistan

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Economic meltdown

17/10/2022 – by Felix Kugele

Enable Afghans to rebuild rudimentary economy

The USA and its allies still bear some responsibility for the fate of Afghanistan

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Farming

14/10/2022 – by Roli Mahajan

Indians are beginning to pay more attention to healthy diets

Why millets should prove useful in the fight against malnutrition in South Asia

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Flooding

22/09/2022 – by Imran Mukhtar

Pakistan is paying price for neglect of climate adaptation

Not having contributed much to climate change, Pakistanis suffer impacts

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Sustainable development

20/09/2022 – by Manzur Kadir Ahmed, Hans Dembowski

Bengali doctor says pandemic proved validity of SDG agenda

Covid-19 caused hardship in Bangladesh, but proved less devastating than initially feared

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Poverty

18/09/2022 – by Mahwish Gul

School closures in pandemic showed multidimensional poverty

UNICEF reckons that one third of the world’s schoolchildren did not get formal lessons because of Covid-19

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Personal experiences

13/09/2022 – by Mireille Kanyange, Marva Khan

Covid-19 impacts worldwide

D+C/E+Z contributors from very different countries share their personal experiences on the Corona pandemic

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Personal experiences

11/09/2022 – by Derrick Silimina, Bimbola Oyesola, et al.

Covid-19 impacts worldwide

D+C/E+Z contributors from very different countries share their personal experiences on the Corona pandemic

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