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Singers celebrating Rabindranath Tagore’s legacy in Bangladesh.

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, polymath, preceptor

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
A worker in a cracker factory owned by Beloxxi, a Nigerian family business of which DEG has become a shareholder.

Rule of law

Facilitating investments

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by Christiane Rudolph
From judge to minister: Sérgio Moro.

Bolsonaro cabinet

Controversial appointment

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by Carlos Albuquerque
Germany continues to extract climate-destroying brown coal at mines like this in Garzweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Sustainability

Do the right thing

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by Katja Dombrowski
Jhanja Tripathy.

KfW

Fighting chaos on the roads

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Legislation

Promoting local ownership

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by Constanze von Oppeln
The VLT Carioca in Rio de Janeiro.

KfW

18 million fewer car journeys

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by Katja Dombrowski
Protestors in Paris: Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Mohamed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was killed in the country’s consulate in Istanbul in October.

Human rights

Limited freedom of expression

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
School children use a new cycle path in Soweto, Johannesburg.

KfW

Climb aboard!

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
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