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Recycling

Used clothing collection in Germany

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by Thomas Ahlmann
Secondhand clothes dealer in Nairobi, Kenya.

Secondhand clothes

Trade in secondhand clothes: the benefits outweigh the costs

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by Thomas Ahlmann
Street stall in South Sudan.

Economy

Bringing businesses out of the informal sector

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by Oliver Schmidt
Printing traditional Javanese textile patterns in a small-scale workshop.

Relevant reading

In promotion of small businesses, prioritise social capital

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by Iwan J. Azis
by Hans Dembowski
Street-side barbershop in Zimbabwe.

Our view

The nightmare of states that are too small

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by Hans Dembowski
Drought in Kenya, March 2022.

Climate-risk insurance

Promising examples of climate-risk insurance schemes

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by Renate Bleich
by Dirk Reinhard
by Christian Barthelt
Insurances help to control financial damages: devastation caused by Typhoon Ray in the Philippines in late 2021.

Insurance

Managing climate risk with private insurance

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by Renate Bleich
by Dirk Reinhard
by Christian Barthelt
Small retail business in Abidjan.

Africa

Informal markets in Africa under pressure

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by Irit Ittner
The village of Dernau in the Ahr Valley in Germany was almost completely flooded in July 2021.

Disaster response

Learning from the catastrophe in the German Ahr Valley

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by Wolf R. Dombrowsky
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