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Mitch McConnell did his best to use Trump. The president is gone, but the senator is still in office. The photo was taken in Washington in May 2020.

Blog

Biden won thanks to 23,000 voters in three states

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by Hans Dembowski
View of Singapore’s Chinatown: in the background is a portion of the Pinnacle@Duxton housing complex, which was built by the state-run Housing Development Board.

Relevant reading

Singapore’s clever approach to public housing

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by Katja Dombrowski
Workshop for young refugees at a vocational school in Wunsiedel organised by Ahmad Mansour’s Mind Prevention initiative.

Deradicalisation

“Teaching democracy is just as important as teaching maths”

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by Ahmad Mansour
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Not all children have equal opportunities: learning online via smartphone in central Java in Indonesia during the Corona pandemic.

Digitalisierung

Do not expect too much of digitised education

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by Julia Maria Fesser

KfW

KfW promotes energy-efficient new buildings in Mexico

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by Sanna Stockstrom
by Matthias Zilbauer
EcoCasa is a KfW-supported project in Mexico that subsidises energy-efficient social housing construction.

Energy efficiency

Climate targets require energy-efficient buildings

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by Sanna Stockstrom
by Matthias Zilbauer
Germany’s Federal Government tends to prioritise the interests of the automotive industry over the global transition to sustainability: cars on display for promotional purposes at Hannover fairgrounds in 2019.

Blog

German government officer assesses the limits of ODA

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by Hans Dembowski
Improved slum in Kolkata.

Urbanisation

Stages of improving neglected communities’ lives

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
SDI is a movement of the urban poor, calling for more “slum friendly” cities.

Informal settlements

Local ownership is crucial to making slums more liveable

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
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