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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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Monitoring showed that World Bank loans in support of the DRC government focussed on logging revenues rather than the fate of people who depend on forest resources: men building a raft to transport timber downstream.

International Finance Institutions

Most relevant review

by Korinna Horta

19.02.2013

Surrendering weapons in Herat, Afghanistan, in November 2012.

Crisis prevention

Evaluation and quality control

by Floreana Miesen

11.02.2013

Natural catastrophes worlwide 1980 – 2012

Global warming

Disaster statistics

by Sandra Abild

04.02.2013

“Poor developing countries also felt the impacts of the crisis – especially when their export earnings slumped in 2009”: Ghanaian exports pineapples.

Multilateral institutions

Crisis credit

by Kathrin Berensmann

by Ulrich Volz

by Peter Wolff

31.01.2013

South Africa’s new rand bills first came into circulation in November last year.

Editorial

Specific business models

by Hans Dembowski

29.01.2013

“Banks did a lot of things that were geared to raking in high speculation profits and triggering massive bonus payments”: Frankfurt’s stock exchange.

Banking

“Exceedingly high interest rates”

by Bruno Wenn

25.01.2013

Rural development banks need other rules than multinational investment banks: farmers’ market in Peru’s Andes.

Financial markets

Too much of the same

by Jayati Ghosh

17.01.2013

Comment

Ageing societies

by Michael Bünte

31.12.2012

Water issues get more international attention than soil issues – irrigated Peruvian smallholding.

Land tenure

Conflict prone

by Ellen Thalman

31.12.2012

Print edition

Contents December issue

23.12.2012