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Under-Skilled and Outdated: Why India Could Lose Out on Nearly $1 Trillion in GDP if it Fails to Upskill its SMEs
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for around $700 billion – roughly 27% – of India’s $2.6 trillion gross domestic product. But impressive as those numbers sound, Samir Sathe at Wadhwani Foundation points out that they're nowhere near the 40% of GDP that policymakers hope SMEs will generate in the coming years. He explains why India could lose out on around $0.75 trillion in SME contributions to GDP by 2027 if it fails to prioritize and fund skill development efforts, and discusses what the public and private sectors can do to train entrepreneurs more effectively.
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- Education
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Vietnamese Livestreaming-Focused Edtech Firm Bags $1.5 Million Funding
The Vietnamese startup Marathon offers live online tutoring sessions on its platform that connect teachers with students virtually.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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$5 Billion Smart Village and Learning Project in Ghana
TPT Global Tech (TPTW) has entered into a strategic technology agreement with Skybridge West Africa (SWA) to partake in the development of 20 smart villages in Ghana, West Africa.
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- Education, Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Eruditus Valued at $3.2 Billion in $650 Million Fundraise
The universities and Eruditus work to develop courses that are aimed at offering higher education to students.
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- Education
- Region
- Global
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- edtech, global development, startups
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Analysis: Education in a crisis: How Does India Cope and Improve
The pandemic has set back a lot of progress made in education, but all is not lost. Now is the time to reimagine education.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- Asia Pacific
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Nokia, Safaricom and UNICEF Partner To Connect Schools to the Internet Across Kenya
Nokia has come together with multiple stakeholders, including Safaricom, UNICEF and the Kenyan Ministries of Education and ICT, to connect close to 90 schools to the Internet in Kenya.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital inclusion, edtech
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‘Lost Generation’ Fears as COVID Locks Out India’s Poor Students
Even before the pandemic, more than six million Indian girls and boys were already not going to school, according to UNICEF.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- Asia Pacific
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South Africa’s Khula Closes $1.3 Million Seed To Scale Its Software-for-Agriculture Platform
Inadequate financing, education and input distribution persist, but startups such as Khula are providing innovative solutions to these problems.
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- Agriculture, Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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