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World Bank Group to Deploy $160 Billion for COVID-19 Interventions
The Bank expects to deploy up to $160 billion over 15 months through June 2021 to support countries’ responses to COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus
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African Tech Startups Raise Over $700 Million in 2020 Despite Pandemic
African tech startups raised more funding from more investors than ever before in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Covid-19: Africa Secures About 300 Million Vaccine Doses
300 million doses are being secured independently of the global COVAX effort aimed at distributing Covid-19 vaccines to lower-income countries.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SME Health Providers in Five African Countries Get US $30 Million Funding From Health Finance Coalition
Private and small- and medium enterprise (SME) health providers in five high malaria burden African countries are set to benefit from a new emergency loan guarantee facility of more than USD$30 million under the Open Doors African Private Healthcare Initiative
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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MSME E-Commerce Enabler Shopmatic Sees 40% Revenue Growth Amid COVID; Aims to Turn Cash Positive in 2021
Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Shopmatic had acquired CombineSell in October 2019 and Octopus Retail Management in March 2019 while it had partnered with PayU, OnlineSales.ai, United Overseas Bank - Singapore, and CIMB Bank - Malaysia to help SMEs enhance their omnichannel presence.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: International Trade: Year in Review 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted global trade in 2020. However, it has also caused new paradigms to emerge, some of which point to potentially positive outcomes over the medium term.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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Bangladesh to Begin COVID-19 Vaccinations Next Month
The South Asian country of more than 160 million in November signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India to buy 30 million doses of the vaccine developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Analysis: Data-Driven Social Safety Net Response to the COVID-19 Crisis in Ghana
The government’s social protection authorities augmented and adjusted existing data systems to help inform the design, implementation, and monitoring of the country’s social safety net response to the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- coronavirus, data, governance, social impact, technology
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