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Analysis: India’s Cooking Fuel Crisis Needs a Multi-Fuel Clean Energy Strategy
A multi-fuel strategy built around electrification, biogas and solar can offer energy security, affordability and fiscal relief to India.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Nigeria’s Tanda Launched to Digitise Informal Markets in Africa
The platform supports digital product listings, local and remote purchasing, wholesale pricing for bulk buyers and resellers, escrow and fulfillment coordination, and AI-powered voice and chat commerce assistance.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital inclusion, e-commerce, MSMEs
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Viewpoint: The Heart of The South African Film Industry
A debut feature set on the Cape Flats turns a familiar crime premise into a quiet study of fatherhood, masculinity, and survival. But its limited reach reveals the deeper problems facing South African film.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: What Prospects Await This Year’s Global Development Graduates?
In light of recent federal funding cuts and their impact on job opportunities, Ennis helped organize a career fair connecting students with professional opportunities and joined a team surveying global health students across four universities, where “the concern about job prospects was definitely top of mind.”
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- Education
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: India’s AI Deal With the UAE Challenges U.S. Cloud Dominance
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Why the World’s Most Ambitious Coal Phase‑Out Deal Has Failed – And What It Means for Climate Finance
The failure to decommission Cirebon-1 matters beyond Indonesia. It suggests the world’s flagship model for financing the end of fossil fuels isn’t working. And the longer it takes to admit that, the harder the transition becomes – for Indonesia, and for everyone.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Research: Governments Falling 90 Percent Short of Climate Adaptation Finance Needs, Oxfam Warns Ahead of Bonn Climate Talks
This shortfall highlights a stark global inequality, that those who have done the least to cause the climate crisis are being hit by the heaviest damage and short-changed from the funding promised to help them deal with it.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Miller Center Capital Backs Manikstu Agro to Expand Goat Farming Livelihoods in Rural India
The catalytic loan will help scale government-subsidized livestock units for smallholder farming households.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- lending, scale, smallholder farmers
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