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General Assembly Approves $3.45 Billion Un Regular Budget for 2026
The General Assembly has approved a $3.45 billion regular budget for the United Nations for 2026, following weeks of intensive negotiations and one of the Organization’s most important reform initiatives, UN80.
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest
We've counted the votes in NextBillion’s “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest, an annual tradition since 2012. The three winners are listed in this article. Congratulations to these guest writers, and to the other contestants in the contest, whose insights have clearly resonated with our readers this past year. And thank you to everyone who voted — and everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion in 2025. Best wishes for the new year!
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IFC Study Shows Emerging Market Infrastructure Returns Beat S&P 500
Standard Bank boss Sim Tshabalala has led the chorus calling for relaxed regulations in financing infrastructure.
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Viewpoint: Rethinking Development Funding Means Making It Matter to the Median Voter
Development assistance that connects global impact with national interest is a formula that voters can understand.
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4
NextBillion’s “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest has been an annual tradition since 2012. As we do each December, we’ve highlighted 12 of our most-read articles from the past year: You can find links to them in this article, or on the homepage below. We invite you to read them and vote for the ones that influenced your thinking the most. You can vote up to once per hour between today (Dec. 19) and 11:59 pm EST on Jan. 4. We thank you for your support and engagement over these past 20 years, and we wish you a happy and prosperous 2026.
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Viewpoint: There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
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Africa-Focused Seed Investor Chui Ventures Closes 1st Fund at $17.3. Million, Launches New $60 Million Vehicle
Chui Ventures is an investment company that backs exceptional African startups at the early stage of their growth.
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Analysis: Big Bets and Broken Unicorns: Tiger Global’s Rise and Reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
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