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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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Carbon intensive power plant: coal-fired electrical plant Lethabo Power Station in South Africa.

Climate protection

Appropriate carbon prices

by Hans-Jochen Luhmann

by Sabine Balk

by Hans Dembowski

20.05.2020

Covid-19 antibody test in Lagos, Nigeria.

Pandemic response

Global solutions required

by Gerd Müller

18.05.2020

Sharing responsibility: graffiti in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city.

Shared responsibility

Debt relief for poorest countries

by Kathrin Berensmann

14.05.2020

Electrical substation in Anantapur, India. Co-financed by KfW, it supplies electricity for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

by Friederike Bauer

by Achim Neumann

10.05.2020

Energy efficiency is the “world’s first fuel”: Energy-efficient residential buildings funded by KfW Development Bank in New Delhi.

Renewables

Networks and storage needed

by Friederike Bauer

by Achim Neumann

06.05.2020

Many informal businesses become unviable in lockdown conditions: tea seller in Cairo in fall 2019.

Universal basic income

Social transfers stabilise aggregate demand

by Markus Loewe

05.05.2020

Without immigration, Italy’s population would have dwindled: Pope Francis visiting a regional migration centre in Bologna in 2017.

UN forecast

55 countries will see their population shrink by 2050

by Sarah Josef

03.05.2020

Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

by Katja Dombrowski

24.04.2020

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

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