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Press Release: Former Bitcoin CEO Launches Sonic Capital, Asia’s First Tokenized Venture Investment Fund
Sonic to support startups that use blockchain technology to provide solutions to environmental and social challenges, with a focus on the carbon credit markets
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- Investing
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Press Release: According To a New Siemens Stiftung Study, Social Enterprises Are Expected To Create Much Needed Jobs in Africa
The comprehensive analysis in 12 selected African countries estimates that, by 2030, 1 million new jobs can be created by local social enterprises (SEs).
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Recovering the Missing Millions Owed To Africa’s Minigrids
Only a tiny percentage of international donor cash is going to projects, and it’s especially bad in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Leveraging the COVID-19 Crisis for Local Development: How the Pandemic Can Strengthen Public-Private Collaboration in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive humanitarian crisis. But as Malado Kaba, the first female Economy and Finance Minister of the Republic of Guinea argues, it could also be an opportunity for the African continent. She explores how public-private partnerships and improved collaboration across industries and sectors could create sustainable change—if governments take the lead in mobilizing private sector and development partners to support locally driven solutions.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Investing
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Press Release: IFC Provides $100 Million for Santander To Support Small and Medium Enterprises and Finance Renewable Energy in Brazil
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is providing a $100 million loan (equivalent to BRL560 million) to Santander Brasil to boost access to credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Half of this financing will be devoted to the commercialization of photovoltaic panels. Of the remaining amount, at least 20 percent will be directed to SMEs owned by women.
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- Latin America
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Analysis: How Emerging Markets Can Become Green Economies
This article discusses these micro and macro ways of providing impetus to green/renewable projects through financial and structural solutions
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Viewpoint: The United Nations, 75 Years Young: Engaging Youth Social Entrepreneurs To Accelerate the SDGs
This year, the United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary – a milestone of extraordinary economic and social progress in Asia and the Pacific. While the Organization enjoys a lifespan almost equal to the world’s improved average life expectancy, the future lies with those who have recently embarked on theirs: our young people.
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- Investing
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A Phone Can Only Do So Much: Why Mobile Access Isn’t Leading To Digital Financial Service Usage Among Women in India
India has made significant progress in financial inclusion in recent years. However low-income working women are not benefiting from this momentum, even when they receive their wages digitally. To better understand why, BSR’s HERproject and MSC have researched the financial behaviors of female garment workers in India. Akhand Tiwari at MSC and James Steady at BSR explore the results, and discuss how the financial inclusion sector should respond.
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- Finance, Investing, Telecommunications
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