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Analysis: How Indian Companies Are Using Technology To Reach New Consumers
The majority of Indians don’t have access to indoor plumbing or electricity; many rural citizens, in particular, don’t have access to high-quality health care and school — but digital technologies have the potential to address many of those challenges.
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- Technology
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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: Solar-Powered Technology To Level the Playing Field for Women and Girls in World’s Poorest Countries
The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has awarded 20 organisations a total of £2.9 million in funding for innovative, solar-powered appliance technology projects that will help to level the playing field whilst addressing the climate emergency.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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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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Press Release: Uganda Posts Growth in Mobile Money Accounts During Pandemic, Mobile Subscribers Shrink
The growth to 25.9 million accounts was, however, smaller than what had been seen in the first quarter.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Zimbabwe’s Restrictions on Mobile Money Transfers Are a Blow To Financial Inclusion
Mobile financial services are, in most African countries, born out of crises.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: UNDP, UNCDF, Switzerland and Kenya Launch a New Initiative To Govern BigFintech for Greater Good
Geneva, 9 October 2020 - Regulators, UN agencies, market actors and officials from 10 countries will gather virtually on October 9th to launch the Dialogue on Global Digital Finance Governance, implementing one of the key recommendations of the UNSG Digital Finance Task Force, to catalyse international and corporate governance innovations to ensure BigFintechs benefit all.
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- Finance, Technology