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African Mobile Users Pay Nearly Three Times the Global Average for Voice Calls and Internet
The recurring theme of mobile internet prices is that while they are dropping globally, they are not dropping fast enough in Africa.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact Investing App GoParity Launches First Green Energy Project in Africa
GoParity, an impact investment platform based in Portugal and with more than 2.1 million euros of investment raised for environmentally and socially responsible projects is now launching its first project in Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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How You Can Invest in Racial Justice
A history of discrimination and inequality has led to dramatic gaps in wealth, investment, and income between white communities and minority communities. Yale SOM’s Teresa Chahine and a panel of experts discussed how businesses, financial firms, and regular investors can make choices that empower local businesses and increase opportunity.
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- Investing
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COVID-19 May Just Be the Unintended Booster Shot Financial Inclusion Needed
Giving every woman a bank account allows government benefits to reach citizens directly and instantly.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Report: Preservation Tech is the Key to Driving Higher Margins and Avoiding $1 Trillion in Losses Across the Agrifood Value Chain
A new report by Lux Research, “Preserving the Food Chain,” outlines key protection and preservation technologies to help companies achieve significant reductions in both pre-consumer food loss and post-consumer food waste.
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- Agriculture
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Press Release: Particles for Humanity Secures $5 Million and License to Develop Encapsulation Technology for Vitamin A Deficiency
Particles for Humanity, a healthcare company transforming early-stage technologies into products for people in low-resource settings, has received $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a product that has potential to help millions of people who suffer serious medical consequences from malnutrition.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Viewpoint: Turning the Tide in Development — an Inclusive Response to COVID-19
As research professor Cynthia Enloe has said of this pandemic: “We aren’t all in this together. We’re all on the same rough seas together, but we’re in very different boats.”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Viewpoint: COVID-19 in Rural Communities — Building Back Better in the Global South
As the COVID-19 pandemic has flooded the world and infiltrated many of the global south’s most rural, most impoverished communities, attention has turned to what the future will look like.
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- Coronavirus
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