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Analysis: The World Bank Group Reorganization: A Retreat from Research Quality?
"In the new model, it appears that the short-term concerns of the World Bank Group’s dealmakers are likely to gain greater influence over analytical and research output, a step back from a “knowledge bank” and towards the model of economist as salesperson all too common at investment banks."
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- Global
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Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies
Collecting data is easy for impact investors; acting on it is harder. As Taanya Khare at Acumen explains, most impact investment firms turn data-driven insights into action through intentional spaces like investment committees or portfolio review sessions. But she argues that listening is about more than surveys or feedback loops — it requires investors to sit down with company teams to make sense of customer insights, identify blind spots and co-create better solutions and impact strategies. She shares what Acumen has learned from embedding listening and impact management into every stage of its investment process.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Africa is Done Waiting: 10 Key Takeaways from Africa HealthTech Summit 2025
NextBillion was a media partner at last week's Africa HealthTech Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, which focused on the theme: “Connected Care: Scaling Innovation Towards Universal Health Coverage.” NextBillion managing editor James Militzer shares 10 takeaways from the event — and four video interviews with key thought leaders — covering topics that range from the role of the private sector in driving healthtech innovation, to the problem of "pilotitis" and the need for a new narrative around African development.
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PREO Launches New Report on Interoperability in Electric Mobility at Africa E-Mobility Week
PREO’s report draws on five years of insights from its early-stage investments in electric mobility enterprises.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global AgXelerate Launched to Link Indian Agri-Innovators With International Markets
The platform by AgVaya and BioSTL, supported by ICRIER and FSII, links global startups, investors, and incubators to advance regenerative agriculture solutions.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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The Bank of Industry and Bumpa to Empower 200 Youth-led MSMEs
"The collaboration, implemented under the youth and skills thematic area of the bank, aims to address the critical challenge of market access for young entrepreneurs . . . "
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Reimagining the Future of Entrepreneurship Support in East Africa
A new report from WDI, "Reimagining the Future of ESOs in East Africa," integrates insights from accelerators, incubators, investors, ESO donors and intermediaries in the East African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Transportation
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- Global
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DigsConnect Founder Alexandria Procter Launches $1.4 Million Vehicle to Back African Startups
The new vehicle, named Pharos of Alexandria Ventures, is now accepting applications for a series of exclusive pitch sessions to be held in Cape Town this November.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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