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Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

by D+C / E+Z

18.03.2026

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Ghana has become a middle-income country, as its per-capita income has grown more than three-fold since 1995.

Relevant reading

Moving targets

by Niels Keijzer

by Christine Hackenesch

13.02.2015

The NDB is supposed to fund infrastructure projects in the global south. In Malange, Angola, a Brazilian company is building a road.

Development finance

Hopes and illusions

by Sabine Balk

12.02.2015

Environmentalists rally against a nuclear plant in Kudankulam in 2012.

Comment

Life-blood of democracy

by Dinesh C. Sharma

11.02.2015

Agricultural training in Uganda: Smallholder farmers need more support, especially women.

Fight against hunger

NGO demands stronger G7 commitment

by Katja Dombrowski

10.02.2015

Lots of informal self-employment: market in Lusaka.

Labour

Job quality matters

by Gibson Masumbu

by Martin Ostermeier

08.02.2015

In brief

News of the week

07.02.2015

Brown algae, which are harvested in the fjords of Iceland, serve as a raw material for alternative fibres that may someday replace cotton.

Fibre raw materials

Alternatives to cotton

by Marina Chahboune

06.02.2015

At Fashion Company Sahel in Tunisia, the denim fabric from the weaving factories is cut and sewn into jeans. The factory has been audited on behalf of Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) since December 2013.

Organic jeans

Slow fashion

by Monique Voorneman

by Eva-Maria Verfürth

01.02.2015

In brief

News of the week

31.01.2015

Gerd Müller on a visit to a Chinese textile factory.

Decent work

Quality criteria

by Gerd Müller

30.01.2015