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Press Release: World Bank Group Mobilizes Over $29 Billion To Support Latin America and the Caribbean Region’s Response to the Pandemic
The investment will fight the pandemic’s health, economic, and social impacts, as well as support the region respond to challenges such as hurricanes and migration.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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Financial Inclusion During – And After – COVID-19: The 2021 Compass Survey Reveals the True Scale of the Challenges Ahead
COVID-19 has upended the global financial inclusion sector, causing immense new challenges for low-income clients, their households and businesses, providers, funders, and the broader ecosystem. The full extent of this impact won't be seen until the pandemic fully subsides, but trends are emerging. Sam Mendelson at e-MFP shares findings from the organization's most recent Financial Inclusion Compass survey, which asked a broad cross-section of stakeholders where they see these increasingly complex issues trending — and what they’d like to see in the future.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Analysis: How Blockchain Can Help in Africa’s Fight Against COVID-19 and Future Disease Outbreaks
The youthful populations of Africa and their embrace of the opportunities blockchain has to offer could help the continent in the fight against COVID-19 and future epidemics.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- blockchain
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Press Release: CDC Group Announces $50 Million Trade Finance Facility With Ecobank As Part of Its COVID-19 Response
This marks CDC’s first partnership with EBISA with the commitment aimed at providing systemic liquidity to underserved markets and crucial trade finance support to local banks and businesses across Africa.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Ecobank Group And Microsoft Upskill Africa’s Small and Medium Enterprises To Succeed in a Digital Economy
The partnership is set to provide training to equip Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, across sub-Saharan Africa, digital skills and knowledge to succeed in today’s digital world.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ecobank Ghana and Proparco Sign $59 Million Agreement to Help MSMEs Recover From COVID-19 Pandemic
The partnership, which is part of the Choose Africa and ARIZ Initiatives will pave way for Ecobank to offer loans at competitive interest rates to the MSMEs
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- MSMEs
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Analysis: South Africa after COVID-19 – Accelerating Job Creation
Against the odds, there are positive developments in the labor market and young entrepreneurs are one of South Africa’s best hope to solve the jobs crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Emerging Markets: Infrastructure in a Post-COVID World
Despite the contraction of the global economy due to COVID-19, the “global logistics market has reached $5.2 trillion in 2020.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- e-commerce