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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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Wind farm in Morocco: the government wants to boost the share of renewables in the country’s energy mix to 42% by 2020.

Review essay

Germany is not alone

by Achim Neumann

23.10.2014

GIZ household survey in Burkina Faso about the use of improved cookers.

Market analysis

Measuring sustainability

by Marlis Kees

22.10.2014

Almost all rural households have electric power in Vietnam, but supply still tends to be unreliable.

Renewables

Rural network must improve

by Do Thi Bich Ngoc

21.10.2014

ISIS-flag on a hill close to Kobani near the Turkish border in early October.

Ressource wealth

“Deathly silence”

by Loay Mudhoon

20.10.2014

Smuggled petrol is sold on the highway between Cotonou and Porto Novo.

West Africa

Insufficient fire wood

by Karim Okanla

17.10.2014

Development assistance

Tapping new sources

by Sheila Mysorekar

16.10.2014

Sustainability

“Skip out-dated technologies”

by Imme Scholz

15.10.2014

Rally against higher fuel prices in Jakarta last year.

Subsidies

Counter-productive policy

by Anthony J. Jude

10.10.2014

Farm woman taking egg plants to a market in the Indian state of Odisha.

Development agencies

Learning step by step

by Hans Dembowski

09.10.2014

Print edition

Contents October issue

08.10.2014