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Power vacuum in international affairs

No meaningful global leadership

Covid-19 is revealing a dangerous power vacuum in international affairs

UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

UN report highlights challenges related to water stress

Water crisis

Vital resource

The climate crisis and overuse of water put the water supply in many countries at risk

Household chore

Gender injustice

Unequal income opportunities are the reason why women and girls must fetch water for poor families

Economics

Count in human beings

Two Nobel laureates want economists to focus more on empirical reality

Climate protection

Appropriate carbon prices

Why carbon emissions pricing and carbon shadow pricing both make sense

Pandemic response

Global solutions required

Either we beat the Coronavirus worldwide or we will not beat it at all, says Gerd Müller, minister of development

Shared responsibility

Debt relief for poorest countries

Left to themselves, developing countries can’t cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

This is where KfW invests in new storage facilities and networks for renewable energy

Health professionals

The impact of brain drain

When health professionals migrate to prosperous countries, they no longer serve patients at home

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