The birth rate in Germany rose to 1.59 children per woman in 2016, the highest since the 1970s. Still, it’s too low to maintain or grow the country's population. More people still die here than are born. The birth rate in Germany rose to 1.59 per woman in 2016 – the highest rate since the 1970s.

The Chinese government plans to implement a mandatory social evaluation system to rate the trustworthiness of all the country's citizens. By 2020 scores will be decisive for things like getting loans or permission to travel.

One of Janina Kugel's hardest tasks was to announce job cuts at Siemens. She's the firm's human resources executive and a board member. How does she persuade staff to stay at Siemens? How does she recruit skilled workers? How does she motivate herself?

Gaming at work? Unthinkable until recently. Now, many companies, especially large ones, are using games to train and motivate their staff. Yet gamification projects often fail despite their promise.

A peek inside our heads - as we try to find out how staff can be cajoled into top performances. With incentives, of course - but what kind? Our reporter Linda Vierecke checked out our brain's reward center.

In 2017 Deutsche Bank paid over two billion euros in bonuses to its staff, despite huge losses. Designed as incentives, generous pay awards have become an ethical problem. MADE gives you the latest figures and insider information on the issue.

Carbon dioxide emissions are bad for the environment; they drive climate change. Two German companies are working on technology to harness CO2 as a raw material to make other products.

Key to the European Union's efforts to combat climate change is its emissions trading system, which involves caps on certain greenhouse gases. Is the system working?

With a population of more than a billion, India generates a huge amount of waste. Little of it is recycled. A number of start-ups are developing ways to tackle the problem.

There are people in Germany who say there is no point in separating trash into different categories for recycling, it all ends up in the same dump. They are wrong. While a lot of trash just gets burned, a lot really does get recycled.