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Analysis: College for All
University of the People offers quality higher education online for free to anyone anywhere in the world.
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- Education, Technology
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- Global
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ADB Advances Resilient Agriculture and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Cambodia
The Smallholder Resilient Economic Development Sector Project will upgrade agricultural infrastructure and services across 186 communes in seven provinces, which are severely vulnerable to natural hazards.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- South Asia
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Spiro Expands to Ghana with 100 Electric Motorcycles
Announced on October 20, 2026, the launch marks the company’s entry into another African market as it looks to make electric mobility more accessible to commercial riders and delivery businesses.
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- Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cascador and Sterling Bank Announce $200 Million SME Credit Backstop Fund
Sterling Bank is an innovation-led financial institution guided by a belief in impact capitalism, deploying capital to deliver commercial returns while improving lives and expanding opportunity.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Research: Policy Roadmaps Point the Way to Impact Economy Development in Peru, Central America, and Zambia
The findings provide policymakers opportunities to mobilise private capital towards national priorities – supporting inclusive growth, job creation, climate resilience and micro, small, and medium enterprises.
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- Investing
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AUD $4 Million Mobilised For Impact-Focused MSMEs Around the World
That capital has fuelled MSMEs improving access to menstrual products for women and girls in Indonesia, tackling child and maternal malnutrition in Cambodia, delivering nutritious locally sourced and made meals to students in Nepal, and reducing armed conflict in trouble spots around the world.
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- Investing
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Rest of World Faces Prospect of Shutting Down
Rest of World launched in 2020 with an ambitious goal: to shift Western perspectives by telling global stories about technology often ignored by the mainstream US news outlets.
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- Technology
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ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap Launched at AEBF-26 to Accelerate a Clean, Inclusive and Resilient Energy Future
The ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap (ETIR) was launched at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF-26), providing a new regional analysis of how Southeast Asia’s energy system could evolve to meet rising energy demand while advancing the region’s long-term carbon neutrality ambitions.
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- Energy, Technology
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- South Asia
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