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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

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.

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A private car – or at least a private motorbike: For millions of Chinese people this dream is becoming reality.

Trade and urbanisation

Growing transport threatens climate

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by Katja Dombrowski
German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels last year.

European policy

Unfinished business

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by Theresa Krinninger
The EU’s response to the Arab spring might have been more satisfying, had external policies concerning security, development and the promotion of democracy been better coordinated and more focussed: Libyan insurgents celebrating the fall of Gaddafi in 2011.

European Union

Challenged by complexity

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by Svea Koch
by Mark Furness

In brief

News of the week

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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

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by Niels Keijzer
by Christine Hackenesch
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

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

Fight against hunger

NGO demands stronger G7 commitment

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by Katja Dombrowski

In brief

News of the week

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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

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by Marina Chahboune
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

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by Monique Voorneman
by Eva-Maria Verfürth