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Analysis: Everyone Is Funding Oxygen. This Is a Problem.
Media attention on COVID-19 deaths due to a lack of oxygen in big cities has skewed donor priorities. This is impacting relief efforts on the ground.
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- Coronavirus
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- Global
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- nonprofits
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Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: A Microfinance Network Responds to the Devastating Reality of COVID-19 in India
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a disastrous toll in India, with over 27 million confirmed cases and 311,000 reported deaths. In the face of this emergency, Opportunity International is leveraging its network of microfinance partners to provide crucial assistance to hard-hit communities. CEO Atul Tandon explains how the organization is working with microfinance providers to convert their offices into emergency response and triage centers, while educating clients about pandemic-related health risks and providing them with food and supplies.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care, Transportation
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Press Release: Wadhwani Foundation Announces $1 Million in Grants to Immediately Help Indian Families Impacted by COVID-19
Donations to 10 charities and organizations will provide medical and financial assistance to patients and families to help reduce the devastating impact and slow COVID-19 spread
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- corporations, philanthropy
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Analysis: Microfinance Lenders Take Advantage of Cambodian Garment Workers During COVID
Cambodia’s microlenders have come under rising scrutiny as they are linked to predatory lending, child labour and coerced land sales
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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Analysis: Rising Debt in Emerging Markets Could Push Back COVID Recovery and Widen Gap With Developed World
Swelling debt levels may cause emerging markets to fall further behind developed markets in the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, an economist said Monday.
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- Coronavirus
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- Global
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Press Release: VisionSpring Raises $1.5 Million for India COVID-19 Response and Will Deliver More Than 1,000 Oxygen Concentrators to Expand Care
Social Enterprise Deploys Global Team to Procure Personal Protective Equipment and Oxygen Concentrators in Race to Meet Medical Needs in India
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: DFC and FMO Launch $75 Million Co-Financing Facility to Boost COVID-19 Response in Developing Countries
Collaboration will bring much-needed liquidity to businesses in developing countries impacted by the pandemic
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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- Global
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African Guarantee Fund Secures $20 Million Capital Increase for Green SME Financing
African Guarantee Fund has today received a capital increase of USD 20 million from the Danish Investment Fund.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing