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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

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.

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Money from development financing is used to secure vital sectors such as food and health. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Our view

Financing lives

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Where ecosystems are still intact, funding is needed to preserve them. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Climate finance

“Cutting funds won’t save them”

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by Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The international community must bridge differences and continue to invest in the future together. This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

International cooperation

In a time of disruption, we still have prospects

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by Achim Steiner
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
The private sector is crucial for development. But how can returns be generated in a sustainable manner? This article is part of a focus section on development finance accompanied by a series of AI-generated images.

Roundtable discussion

“Designing an environment where money drives meaningful change”

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by Helmy Abouleish
by Richard Rugendo
by James Shikwati
by Bruno Wenn
The coal age never ended: trucks at a Chinese port in 2024.

Book review

“Energy transition” does not mean what you think it does

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by Ipil Monica Baski
Climate related damages are getting worse: burnt houses in Los Angeles in January 2025.

Global environment

Irreversible climate disaster

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by Roli Mahajan
Where will the world be heading if the economy continues to grow?

Research

Why and how we should question growth

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by Daniele Malerba
Combined with incentives, generosity works: Nicholas Brady and George Bush Sr. at the White House in 1990.

Excessive sovereign debt

What G7 should do in response to sovereign debt crises

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the G20 summit of 2020 adopted the Common Framework on Debt Treatment.

Restricted growth

Multilateral action on sovereign debt must speed up

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by José Siaba Serrate
José Siaba Serrate
Health care in the USA is expensive, but not necessarily efficient: doctor in the new operating room of a hospital in Chicago.

GDP statistics

How GDP statistics are misleading

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by Praveen Jha