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Bhutan is the first country that has become carbon negative.

Good news

Bhutan’s successful climate action and Vietnam’s new AI law

The two pieces of good news this month are about Bhutan’s way to become the first country in the world that is carbon negative, and about Vietnam’s new comprehensive AI law.

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Many of the discussed trends are crosscutting and interdependent.

Global trends

The future of development and development policy

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by Katja Dombrowski
Many Brazilians have fallen back into poverty in recent years: slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro.

Global trends

“Change can be measured, the reasons for it cannot”

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by Imme Scholz
There is growing business investment in renewable energies: wind farm in Ceará in north-eastern Brazil.

Research

How green industrial policy can boost prosperity

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by Tilman Altenburg

“The world is slipping off track”

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Recycling – as here in Cape Town, South Africa – needs to play a greater role in a green economy.

Green industrial policy

Reducing poverty whilst transitioning to a green economy

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by Tilman Altenburg
Protests in Argentina against the government’s recent loan application to the IMF.

Debt restructuring

Alternative structural adjustment

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by Jürgen Kaiser
Successful poverty-reduction programmes have reduced inequality in Bolivia.

Economic policy

Interfering in national sovereignty

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by Jürgen Kaiser
African countries are still commodity exporters: workers handling a cocoa shipment from Cote d’Ivoire in Amsterdam.

Development strategies

New paradigm needed

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Informal employment is the norm: mobile CD shop in Moshi, Tanzania.

Failed policies

Descent into hell

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Africa must prepare for flooding: a flood-destroyed bridge in Mozambique in 2015.

Development strategy

Multiple adjustment needs

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by Jürgen Zattler