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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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Depending on local customers: rural retailer in Honduras.

Entrepreneurship

Village money

by Carolina Carias

04.03.2013

The poor are the most vulnerable: a flooded informal settlement hit by Hurricane Sandy in Santo Domingo in October 2012.

Global governance

Climate refugees

by Ellen Thalman

28.02.2013

Commodities

To whom belong the bounties of the world?

by Sheila Mysorekar

27.02.2013

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

President François Hollande visiting Timbuktu in February.

Intervention

Françafrique à la Hollande

by Yahouza Sadissou

14.02.2013

Surrendering weapons in Herat, Afghanistan, in November 2012.

Crisis prevention

Evaluation and quality control

by Floreana Miesen

11.02.2013

“Acleda currently has 234 branch offices.”

Institutions

From NGO to commercial bank

by Anja Strautz

05.02.2013

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