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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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Remote management

KfW remote project management with KoBoToolbox

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by Jochen Harnisch
by Meinhard Rögner
The image, taken with a surveying drone, allows KfW to evaluate an irrigation project in the Sikasso region of Mali. The colours indicate the different crops: cabbage is blue, lettuce light green, onions dark green.

Technical solutions

Remote project management is helpful in times of crisis

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by Jochen Harnisch
by Meinhard Rögner
Plastic waste in Dakar, Senegal, in 2005: humankind needs global solutions to global chemicals problems.

Global environment

Trailblazing UN conference

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by Hans-Christian Stolzenberg
Harjit Sajjan is Canada’s minister of defence.

Building bridges

Why diaspora communities are powerful development actors

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by Richa Arora
Recycling digital devices in India in 2017.

Environmental hazards

Stop global trend of chemical intensification

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by Hans-Christian Stolzenberg
Inequality results from the current economic order, warns Oxfam: worker in Bangladeshi garment factory.

Oxfam

Fundamental change needed to overcome inequality

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Peter Thiel, the Silicon-Valley billionaire, visiting Donald Trump in New York in late 2016.

Special interests

The public good must not be left to powerful billionaires

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by Michael Steffen
by Hans Dembowski
The success of Kamala Harris, the first female, Black and South Asian vice president of the USA, is appreciated by women in Painganadu, the Tamil Nadu village her grandfather came from.

Migration

India’s diaspora is influential, though few members vote

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by Roli Mahajan

Financial inclusion

Taking it to the bank

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by Derrick Silimina
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa got his shot on 17 February.

Blog

Covid-19 vaccines: we must not lose more time

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by Hans Dembowski