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MIT D-Lab and Upaya Social Ventures Announce Collaboration To Support Women-Led Startups in India
The 2021 Scale-Ups Accelerator, developed in collaboration between MIT D-Lab and Upaya, will prepare women entrepreneurs for investment and pilot new methods to address gender financing gap.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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COVID-19 Has Resulted in Largest Global Economic Contraction in 80 Years, Say World Bank and IMF
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund said the global economic contraction caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the largest in the last eight decades, raising the world poverty rate, exacerbating inequalities and damaging long-term economic growth prospects.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: DFC Announces New Global Development Strategy To Catalyze $75 Billion by 2025
DFC aims to maximize global development impact and deploy new technologies, while continuing to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Technology, WASH
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Press Release: Global Agriculture and Food Security Program Donors Announce $300 Million To End Hunger and Malnutrition
Today during the launch of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) Replenishment Period 2020-25, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), donors increased their contributions to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) – a world with zero hunger.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Investing
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World Energy Outlook 2020 Examines Pathways Out of the Pandemic Crisis
The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2020 focuses on the next ten years, exploring different pathways out of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Investing, Technology
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Big Tech’s Emerging Market Finance Push Brings Rewards and Risk, FSB Says
A push by big technology firms into financial services in developing countries will improve access to them, but might also make traditional lenders more vulnerable, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) said.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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- impact investing
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Governance Still Tops ESG Considerations for Asset Managers
Global survey reveals increasing influence of ESG in investment activities, critical role of engagement, and more
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- ESG, governance, impact investing
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Press Release: The Risk Management Association Survey Finds ESG Investing and Securities Lending Can Coexist
A new survey of leading institutional investors released today by The Risk Management Association (RMA) revealed that 95% of respondents believe that securities lending activities can coexist with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, governance, impact investing, lending