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Positioning South Africa for a Green Recovery
Countries not adapting to a green transition will find themselves behind and excluded. They will be behind on the innovation curve, the cost curve and thus be laggards.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Raises the Bar on the Real-World Outcomes of Impact Investing With a Focus on Impact Performance
Standardization of impact performance analytics will drive development of benchmarks and ratings.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Why Is This Emerging Markets Bond Performing So Well?
While the case for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is almost a no-brainer given the sector’s recent performance and despite stricter measures on cracking down on ESG funds, emerging markets might be on the opposite end of the spectrum. Or are they?
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- ESG, impact investing
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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
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Fintech Startup TeamApt Now Operates Nigeria’s Largest Non-Bank Mobile Money Platform
Moniepoint, the mobile money platform launched last year by Nigerian fintech startup TeamApt, has become the largest non-bank mobile money service in the country, processing 13 million transactions monthly.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ilara Health Secures $1.1 Million Grant To Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Kenya
Ilara Health, the healthtech company which provides point of care diagnostic testing to small primary care clinics in Kenya, has received a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Sudan’s Record Wheat Harvest Is Proof That Bank Agricultural Transformation Program Will Boost Breadbasket Goal
Despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, travel and transport restrictions, Sudan has just recorded its largest wheat harvest. According to Sudanese officials, the nation saw a wheat production level of a 1.115 million-ton harvest from 315,500 hectares of farmland. That’s quite an improvement from just five years ago, when farmers in Sudan working about a quarter-million hectares of land harvested just 472,000 tons of the grain.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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