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The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor
Companies like Tala are at the forefront of the race to deliver rudimentary financial services to the 1.7 billion people on the planet who lack even a bank account. Providing them with the basics of credit, savings and insurance is one of the great challenges and opportunities of the century.
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- Finance
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The Dirty Business of Cement Gets a Clean Up from MIT
Is it possible to change how the most ubiquitous building material on earth is made — one so dirty that it accounts for nearly a tenth of greenhouse gases, yet so cheap to produce that it costs less per kilogram than bottled water?
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: Mary Kay, in Collaboration With UN Agencies, Launches Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator
The Accelerator will offer a guided digital curriculum supplemented by on-the-ground training and mentorship. In addition, it will serve as an advocacy platform to eliminate entrepreneurial roadblocks for women, ranging from digital literacy to legal reform—enabling women to fully participate in the growth of their local and national economies.
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- Uncategorized
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- accelerators, gender equality, SDGs
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Press Release: In Impact Investing First, LeapFrog Announces Audit on Impact Principles, Achieving Top Rating
In the independent audit by Tideline, a leading US impact advisory consultancy, LeapFrog was assessed as an “Exemplification of industry best practice,” with its Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) system achieving “an advanced level of alignment across the board for all nine of the Principles.”
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- Investing
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Rwanda’s Trash Warrior Tackles E-Waste With Blockchain
his week, the 19-year-old will join climate activist Greta Thunberg at the U.N. Youth Climate Summit in New York as one of 100 selected young people offering solutions on climate change.
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- Environment, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- blockchain, climate change, waste
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Press Release: Indonesian Lending Startup JULO Raises $10M Series A2
“Access to affordable personal loans on a short-term basis is often the difference between a family being able to pay for its daily needs like education, or not,” said Adrianus, co-founder and CEO of JULO. “At JULO, we use proprietary credit scoring technology to put money in the hands of people who need it to pay for education, home improvements, or working capital -- all at affordable rates.”
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Trade War Spurs India-China Digital Embrace
A new wave of Chinese upstarts is challenging, and sometimes outstripping, the U.S. in the race for 5G dominance, AI, and its downstream derivatives such as Smart Cities, Driverless cars, advanced healthcare and Financial Technology (Fintech) products.
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- Technology
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Jeff Bezos Unveils Sweeping Plan to Tackle Climate Change
Bezos expects 80% of Amazon’s energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024, before transitioning to zero emissions by 2030.
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- Energy, Environment
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