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Analysis: What We Need To Do to Really Empower and Enable Women in India
Institutions working for women empowerment need to look beyond the simple measures, and into gaps of skilling, financing, and a social safety net for women in rural and semi-urban areas
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Global Water Challenge and AMREF Health Africa Launch Women and Girl-focused Impact Partnership
As the world celebrated Global Handwashing Day, Global Water Challenge (GWC), with Amref Health Africa, launched a high impact community water partnership with support from The Starbucks Foundation to empower women and girls in coffee- and tea-growing communities of Kenya and Tanzania.
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- Global
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Analysis: The Case of the Underperforming Circular Economy
Progress resides through the decidedly less-glamorous earthbound work of business process improvements, negotiations among buyers and sellers, and internal business teams needing to resolve highly complex technical issues. These efforts are essential to building more empowering business cultures through intra-organizational and cross-value-chain networks.
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- circular economy, scale
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Ghanaian Entrepreneur Launches $115 Million Impact Fund to Invest in Africa’s Creative Industry
Ghanaian businesswoman and entrepreneur, Roberta Annan, this week, launched a €100 million fund, to channel investment into small and medium African creative and fashion enterprises.
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External Review Finds Deeper Rot in World Bank ‘Doing Business’ Rankings
The World Bank on Thursday said it would cancel the "Doing Business" series by law firm WilmerHale that found senior World Bank leaders, including Kristalina Georgieva, who now heads the International Monetary Fund, pressured staff to alter data to favor China during her time as World Bank CEO.
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Meaningful Employment for Autistic People: A Social Startup in India Seeks to Transform Lives
Autism affects tens of millions of people around the world, and the vast majority of adults with the condition are either unemployed or underemployed, despite their ability, desire and willingness to work. Parag Ghosh of Auspice Social explores how the company is addressing these challenges by providing hands-on training and skill development to adults with autism in India, and lays out its four-phase plan to boost employment among autistic people around the globe through an inclusive business model based on human-centric design.
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- employment, SDGs, startups
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Indonesian E-Grocer Pasarnow to Expand to New Cities With a US $3.3 Million Funding Led by East Ventures
Pasarnow aims to streamline Indonesia's complicated fresh products supply chain and deliver quality food products to customers through its multi-channel platform
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- South Asia
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LoftyInc Capital Launches Third Fund at $10 Million for a More Diverse Portfolio of African Startups
LoftyInc Capital, a pan-African VC firm, announced that it is launching its third fund for tech startups in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce, fintech, startups, venture capital
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