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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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Not much scope for social distancing: a soldier enforcing South Africa’s lockdown in a township.

Global crisis

Debt swaps make sense

by Christoph Hoffmann

23.04.2020

Infrastructure

Destructive biomass demand

by Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki

22.04.2020

Rural road in Malawi: local people would benefit from better infrastructure.

Employment

The urgency of public works programmes

by Joachim von Braun

by Tekalign Sakketa

21.04.2020

Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.

Power shortages

When the lights go out

by Derrick Silimina

19.04.2020

Work must go on – a carpenter in Benin in better times.

Development finance

Africa’s private sector needs support

by Bruno Wenn

17.04.2020

Family planning

Fast population growth

by Mahwish Gul

17.04.2020

Hydroelectric power station on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.

Energy policy

Water over the dam

by Derrick Silimina

16.04.2020

Copper smelting in Zambia: commodity prices have plummeted because of Covid-19.

Blog

Covid-19 as seen by World Bank board member

by Hans Dembowski

15.04.2020

Beneficiaries of Zanzibar’s universal social pension in 2018.

Ageing and social protection

Africa’s demographic transition

by Florian Jürgens

15.04.2020

Children in Al-Karama – a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Syria.

IDPs

Greater international commitment is needed

by Sabine Balk

14.04.2020