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Press Release: The Mandela Rhodes Foundation Launches $80K Äänit Prize for Social Impact in Africa
The Äänit Prize will award up to $80 000 per year to projects and organisations that can deliver positive social impact in Africa.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: India Can Be a Global Leader in Building a Nature-Positive Economy
India's total agriculture subsidies are likely to reach $45-50 billion in perpetuity by 2030. Repurposing it to support India's 120 million smallholder farmers transition to regenerative agriculture can help generate system-scale impact by 2030 in a cost-neutral manner.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Rising Debt in Emerging Markets Could Push Back COVID Recovery and Widen Gap With Developed World
Swelling debt levels may cause emerging markets to fall further behind developed markets in the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, an economist said Monday.
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- Coronavirus
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- Global
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Indonesia’s Transfez Raises Seed Funding to Venture Into B2B Money Remittance Sector
Transfez allows users to transfer money across 50 countries in 26 currencies at a cost that is 'up to 10x cheaper than banks'
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Analysis: IEA Energy Roadmap: Stop New Fossil Fuels Investments
Since it was first set up in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been a hugely influential player in world energy politics.
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CDC Group Commits USD $100 Million to African Farmers
United Kingdom government-owned development finance institution CDC Group will be providing a debt commitment of USD 100 million to agricultural conglomerate Export Trading Group.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press Release: VisionSpring Raises $1.5 Million for India COVID-19 Response and Will Deliver More Than 1,000 Oxygen Concentrators to Expand Care
Social Enterprise Deploys Global Team to Procure Personal Protective Equipment and Oxygen Concentrators in Race to Meet Medical Needs in India
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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HER Digital Academy Announces First Fully Online Global School for Women to Launch Careers in Tech
HER Digital Academy is helping women across the world upskill and re-train individually, while also partnering with workplaces to build accelerator programs for startup founders
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- accelerators, startups
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