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Ban Announces Launch of New Partnership Platform to Support Financing for Sustainable Development Goals
Announcing the launch today of a new platform for scaling up innovative finance solutions to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the initiative can help in identifying and piloting innovative finance instruments that can drive investment and support well thought-out SDG interventions.
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- financial inclusion, SDGs
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Business and INGO Partnerships: Are We on the Same Planet?
At a session on defining the “next generation” of primary health care at the United Nations General Assembly, Tim Evans, senior director of health, population and nutrition at the World Bank Group, said the international development community is suffering from “pilotitis.”
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- Health Care
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Kiva and The MasterCard Foundation Announce Five-Year Project to Expand Financial Access Among African Smallholder Farmers and Rural Populations
Kiva and The MasterCard Foundation today entered into a five-year, $7.9 million partnership to test and scale financial services and loan products tailored to the unique needs of smallholder farmers and rural populations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Support from The MasterCard Foundation underscores its commitment to enable financial inclusion strategies with high-impact potential.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How China’s Biggest Search Engine Aims to Fix a Huge Crisis in Health Care: A Bot
Baidu — China's biggest search engine — introduced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot on Tuesday to connect with patients, field medical questions and suggest diagnoses to doctors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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African Development Bank to Launch an Africa Investment Forum
The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the institution's proposal to launch an 'Africa Investment Forum (AIF)'--a meeting place for investors interested in Africa.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa
The eyes of the private equity investor lit up as he strode across the empty floor of a recently built hospital here. There was not much to see: a stretch of unfinished concrete, and steel bars pushed into a corner.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US Fed Explores Blockchain Use Cases With Industry Participants
The Federal Reserve has established a working group that is exploring financial innovation across the broad range of its responsibilities and engaging with industry stakeholders to discuss the ways in which the payment system could be improved considering the new wave of innovation including distributed ledger technology.
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- Technology
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- blockchain, fintech
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PotaVida Is a Smart, Solar-Powered Water Purifier for People in Need
The company: PotaVida, a Seattle startup that harnesses sunlight to disinfect water for use in disaster relief or refugee crises.
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- Environment, Technology
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- solar
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