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St. Louis company hiring women rescued from sex trafficking
Manske was sure she wanted to do something to help, but did not know exactly how. A few years later, she received two wedding gifts that would spark an idea.
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Why India’s air pollution is so horrendous
A whopping nine in 10 people on Earth breathe highly polluted air, and more than 80 percent of urban dwellers have to endure outdoor pollution that exceeds health standards, according to the WHO’s World Global Ambient Air Quality Database.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Big Tech is an extractive industry, it must be regulated as such
Web activists have long bemoaned the dangers to privacy posed by these firms. But now the squeaky clean liberal image of Big Tech has been shattered by the scandal around Cambridge Analytica's use of personal Facebook data to help win the Brexit and Trump votes.
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- Technology
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- data
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Why One Private Equity Firm Is Betting Big On Impact Investing In Renewable Energy
The concept of impact investing is hardly new and one that is refreshingly simple. It is simply about funneling investment dollars into companies established with the intention of generating a quantifiable, visible and broadly beneficial social impact alongside a financial return.
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- Investing
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Pairing access to finance and energy to solve global poverty
Pairing access to finance with access to energy can help more than a billion people raise their standard of living, banish poverty to the past and no longer be counted among the unbanked.
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Advances and lessons learned from BIM, Peru’s first mobile money wallet
BIM recently announced its plans to launch new services in the second half of 2017. It will enable customers to pay electricity, water and telephone bills, as well as have access to micro savings, loans, and microinsurance.
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- Finance
- Region
- Latin America
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Chinese investors warming up to impact investing, but regulations slowing progress
Chinese investors are showing increasing interest in start-ups with innovations that tackle energy consumption, social and climate change issues, but the main force behind such so-called impact investing remains foreign firms and supranational agencies, according to fund managers.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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China’s Major Tech Firms Will Dominate SE Asia’s Emerging Markets: Who Wins And Who Loses?
Digital behemoths Alibaba and Tencent are expanding their e-commerce, cloud and data capabilities across the SEA region, which has a rapidly growing population of more than half a billion people.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce, fintech, MSMEs, public policy
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