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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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Ecuador is struggling to service Chinese loans: President Lenín Moreno with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing in December 2018.

Aid

Limits of sovereignty

by Hans Dembowski

13.01.2019

KfW

18 million fewer car journeys

by Katja Dombrowski

25.12.2018

Mexico

Missing people

by Virginia Mercado

21.11.2018

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán being arrested for the second time in 2014. The head of the Sinaloa cartel managed to escape from prison twice, but was extradited to the USA in 2017.

Change of government

Restart needed

by Virginia Mercado

20.11.2018

Bolsonaro’s famous campaign gesture symbolising guns.

Authoritarian tendencies

Destroying global commons

by Hans Dembowski

29.10.2018

Food security

Pioneering urban agriculture

by Katie Cashman

19.10.2018

Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula da Silva in the fall of 2002.

IMF

Brazil's IMF experience

by Carlos Albuquerque

04.09.2018

In Buenos Aires in December 2001, protestors declared the government to be a thief and demanded their money – some of them were wearing masks with the face of then President Fernando de la Rúa.

Economic history

Always returning to square one

by Jorge Saborido

24.08.2018

Anti-IMF rally in Buenos Aires on 1 June.

Argentina

The budget deficit is the core problem

by Cornelia Schmidt-Liermann

13.06.2018

When farmers work together, for instance to market products, they all can benefit. Traders on the way to the market in Jérémie, Haiti.

International cooperation

Building trust

by Leon Valentin Schettler

19.05.2018