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The Pandemic is Hurting China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Some BRI projects are stalling as countries struggle to repay related debts.
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- Coronavirus
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- Asia Pacific
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Social Entrepreneur Building Rural Economy, Urges MFIs to Launch Disaster Fund
Yunus, was speaking on June 6, Saturday, at a webinar organised by Sa-Dhan, the platform for Indian MFIs
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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Mobile Telecoms Discusses the New and Emerging Business Models Amidst COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic, with its catastrophic effects, has not spared the economies of the various countries as it sweeps across the globe.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Renewables in Focus to Revive Energy Sector as Economies Ease Lockdowns
A sudden slump in energy consumption due to worldwide lockdown caused by the COVID-19 had threatened the energy transition due to a plunge in oil prices. However, as predicted by COE-EDP clean energy and inward-looking policies are the focus of the reviving energy sector across economies in the post-lockdown period.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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How Coronavirus Slashed Trips to Kenyan Atms to an All-Time Low in April
In April, the value of money transacted through cards and point-of-sale machines declined by a third to Sh35.2 billion from Sh52.1 billion in March.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- financial health
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Mobile Money Shields Some Zambians from Coronavirus, Endangers Others
Zambia’s government has called on the public to use less cash in order to reduce their exposure to the coronavirus. Now mobile money tellers and grocers find themselves at risk.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Managing Wealth Differently Can Contribute to a More Equitable Recovery
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s racially disparate death rates to uprisings sparked by ongoing deadly police brutality, all disproportionately affecting black communities, there may be no better time to rethink how that wealth gets managed and how it might be managed differently in order to contribute to a different social outcome.
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- Coronavirus, Impact Assessment, Investing
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How COVID-19 Will Reshape Islamic Finance Markets
Since the inception of the Islamic finance industry in the 1970s, there has been a steady growth in demand for sharia-compliant products and services and the industry’s total assets reached US$2.5 trillion globally in 2019.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- ESG, lending, microfinance