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Analysis: Corporate Investors Hold the Key to Fostering Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Alarming headlines about women leaving the workforce during the pandemic abound. A quick Google on the topic will yield results including “How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward”, “Women’s COVID-Fueled Exodus from the Workplace Hurts Us All”, “Why COVID-19 Could Force Millions of Women to Quit Work – and How to Support Them” from American Progress, Time and the Forum, respectively.
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- Coronavirus
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Analysis: ‘Brazil Is Suffocating’: COVID Surge Creates Severe Oxygen Crisis
Several states report critical stock levels, loans of cylinders and even transfer of patients who require oxygen.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Rwanda Bridges Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion by 10%
Although there are still a number of challenges that continue to drag women behind men in terms of financial inclusion, the number of women who are banked have greatly improved, rising from 24 percent in 2016 to 34 percent in 2021.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Green Climate Fund Approves $80 Million in FAO-Led Projects in Congo and Jordan
The new initiatives will help smallholders mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- climate change
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Ghana’s Redbird Raises $1.5 Million Seed to Expand Access to Rapid Medical Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa
For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses, especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be more convenient, with a patient’s health information able to follow them wherever they go.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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Analysis: Solar Technologies Can Speed up Vaccine Rollout in Africa. Here’s How
There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to vaccinate even the most essential workers in developing countries has only just begun.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, vaccines
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Fashion for Good Consortium Pilots Resource Efficient Cotton Farming
Fashion for Good launches a new, two-year pilot project in collaboration with leading brands Kering and PVH Corp., and leading global textile manufacturer Arvind Limited to pilot a radically resource-efficient cotton farming technology provided by Fashion for Good innovator, Materra (formerly hydroCotton).
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- agtech
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Press Release: Nuvemshop Raises $90 Million as It Catalyzes E-Commerce and Entrepreneurship Across Latin America
With tremendous momentum over the past year, Nuvemshop tripled its customer base and has been a key enabler of commerce in the region. Latin America is not only a huge market (with over 650 million consumers), it is now the fastest growing e-commerce market in the world, reaching $85 billion in total sales.
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- Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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- e-commerce
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