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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Pandemic Shows the Need to Strengthen Digital Safety Nets for Women
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to wipe out hard-won gains in global development and gender equality. The World Bank reports that the world faces its first increase in extreme poverty since 1998, with between 71 million and 100 million people set to fall into destitution depending on the pandemic’s course, and the crisis affecting women more negatively than men.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 Forced a Billion Children Out of School – Here’s How We Can Save Their Education
The world must take steps to mitigate the damage of COVID-19 on education.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Entrepreneurship
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Interview: How COVID-19 Will Affect Impact Investing in India
Geeta Goel, country director, India, of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, talks about the need for responsible capitalism
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- Coronavirus, Education, Investing
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Viewpoint: Coronavirus Shows Smallholder Farmers Need Help to Thrive
The Covid-19 has revealed how vulnerable the agri-food value chain is to abrupt external shocks, hence the urgent call for stakeholders to help build resilience in the sector.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: How Can Digital Financial Services Help a World Coping With COVID-19?
The global economy will likely contract by over 5 percent in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, according to the recently released Global Economic Prospects. The deepest global recession in eight decades is sending hundreds of millions into poverty, and recovery appears to be far off. Still, the crisis has encouraged incentives for economic transformation and adoption of digital business models, including increased use of digital financial services (DFS).
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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Argentina: There Is No Economy Without Health
Latin America is now the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no peak in sight.
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- Coronavirus
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- Latin America
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What 6 of the 7 Countries With the Most COVID-19 Cases Have in Common
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, some of the largest outbreaks are in countries that fall into one particular economic category. They're not rich. They're not poor. They're middle income.
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- Coronavirus
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- coronavirus, health care, SMEs, social impact
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How Tri-Sector Collaboration Is Critical in Creating COVID-19 Response Funds
Despite all the challenges that COVID-19 has brought, Beth Bafford, Vice President of Syndications and Strategy at Calvert Impact Capital, Duke MBA class of 2012 and CASE i3 Advisory Council member, is hopeful about one thing: we can all do so much more when we work together.
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