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Will COVID-19 spur green bond issuances in emerging markets?
As many countries turn to debt to help fund their recoveries from the coronavirus pandemic, an increasing number of governments and companies are looking at sustainability-focused financial instruments to fund major projects.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- North Africa & Near East
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- governance
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How Tech Investors in Africa Coped With the Changes Enforced by COVID-19
Last week’s virtual Africa Tech Summit Connects event brought together a host of African tech investors to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities in the wake of COVID-19, and all agreed that the way they do business has been altered by the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Covid-19: Remittance Flows To Shrink 14% by 2021
International migration to fall in 2020 for the first time in recent decades
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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Analysis: Keeping Girls in School Is Worth Billions To Developing Nations
New analysis finds that investing in girls' education will forge fairer and wealthier societies.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 Billion To Catalyze a Green Recovery From Pandemic
Driving public-private investment, transformative solutions, and a more inclusive, sustainable future. Launching next chapter for the 107-year old philanthropic institution.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Health Care
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African Money Transfer Firms Thrive as Pandemic Spurs Online Remittances
Having fled an economic implosion in his native Zimbabwe, Brighton Takawira was able to support his mother back home with modest earnings from a small perfume business he set up in South Africa. Then the pandemic struck. Borders closed. The buses he had used to send his cash stopped running.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is COVID-19 Driving Growth in Digital Currencies?
With purchases and transactions increasingly moving away from cash and towards digital channels during the pandemic, both central banks and private institutions around the world are continuing to explore the potential of digital currencies.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Mastercard Foundation and ICCO Cooperation Partner To Strengthen the Resilience of 80,000 Farmers in Senegal
ICCO Cooperation and the Mastercard Foundation have joined forces to support smallholder farmers in Senegal who were left reeling from the impact of COVID-19. The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Agrifinance Project (CORRAP), co-created with Senegalese producers, aims to support smallholders to recover from the pandemic and emerge stronger and more resilient to future crises and shocks.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa