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Analysis: How Smallholder Farmers Are Coping With the Pandemic
As smallholder farmers, Hakuzimana says they are faced with countless challenges such as limited market, wastage of produce and limited access to sources of agricultural productivity.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vaccines prevented 37 million deaths in LMICs in the last 20 years
These are the findings of the most comprehensive study of the impact of vaccination programmes yet undertaken, published today in The Lancet.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- vaccines
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COVID-19 Knocked $200 Million off Remittances Last Year in Uganda
Remittances fell by $200m for the year ended December 2020, highlighting the impact of Covid-19 within and without Uganda.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report Spotlights Drug Firms’ Supply Chain Initiatives, Hurdles in LMICs
The almost yearly Access to Medicine Index measures the 20 behemoths of the pharmaceutical industry, encapsulating 70% of global pharmaceutical revenues. However, the report doesn't look at the bottom line: It looks at medicine accessibility in low- and middle-income companies (LMICs), and—as with everything in the past year—COVID-19 made its mark, demanding supply chain innovation and collaboration in new ways.
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- Coronavirus
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Analysis: Has COVID-19 Prompted the Belt and Road Initiative to Go Green?
Following a year of coronavirus-related disruptions, China appears to be placing a greater focus on sustainable, digital and health-related projects in its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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- Coronavirus, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: OPEC Fund Supports Post-COVID-19 African Infrastructure With $50 Million Loan to Africa Finance Corporation
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) have signed a $50 million loan agreement to help finance and build infrastructure needed for Africa’s post-COVID recovery. This represents the first direct financing co-operation between the two institutions.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Exposed the Digital Divide. Here’s How We Can Close It
In 2020, the world embraced digital transformation at an expedited pace, reimagining technology’s critical role in how we work, learn and live. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a long-standing issue: billions of people remain without the universal human right of internet access.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- edtech
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Analysis: Humanitarian Crises Monitoring: Coronavirus in Developing Countries: Secondary Impacts
Developing countries face disastrous healthcare setbacks, hunger and huge international debt as covid-19’s ‘final wave.’
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- Coronavirus, Health Care