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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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Due to the destruction of schools and the dramatic reduction in the number of teachers, a “lost generation” is growing up in Syria: school east of Idlib, destroyed by a Russian attack in March 2020.

Syria

Difficult reconstruction

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by Dagmar Wolf

Environment

Running dry

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
Indigenous community in Ecuador sharing a meal.

Buen Vivir

The good life

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by Philipp Altmann
Informal businesses are common in Kenya: knife sharpening service in Nairobi.

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz
GiveDirectly is cost-efficient, bypasses bureaucracies and helps poor people take their fate into their own hands.

Official development assistance

Why taxation matters

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by Hildegard Lingnau
Hildegard Lingnau
by Julia Schnatz

Solar energy

Power from the sun

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by Derrick Silimina
Extreme weather events are becoming ever more frequent in Pakistan: flooding in Karachi in July.

SDGs

No reason to sit back and relax

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by Syed Muhammad Abubakar
Participants in an SDG conference in Kigali in 2019.

Our view

The crucial development challenge

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by Hans Dembowski
A woman reports from a village planning group in Chad.

Participation

Valuable resource

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by Frank Bliss
Growth in itself will not solve urban infrastructure problems: small shops on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Global trends

In urgent need of development

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by Belay Begashaw