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Award-Winning Startup Targets Affordable Medicine for Every African
MPharma is one of five social businesses to receive awards from the Skoll Foundation at this week’s Skoll World Forum, Britain’s leading event for social enterprise.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Facebook’s AI Team Maps the Whole Population of Africa
“The maps from Facebook ensure we focus our volunteers’ time and resources on the places they’re most needed, improving the efficacy of our programs,” said Tyler Radford, executive director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, one of the project’s partners.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: IIX awarded S$1.2M from Australian government to develop ecosystem for gender lens investing in Asia
With a decade of experience building the impact investing market and driving women’s empowerment across the world, IIX will leverage its ecosystem and gender-focused approach to support the growth of 500 impact enterprises across Asia.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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China says bitcoin is wasteful. Now it wants to ban mining.
An executive who works closely with Chinese mining firms told WIRED that although the ban was widely expected to move forward, miners expect it will take years for the government to fully rein in their operations.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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WisdomTree Launches India Ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund
The fast pace of reform throughout India has made it easier for many firms to piggy-back on the tailwinds provided by the significant growth of the overall economy.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Press release: OPIC announces investing milestone as portfolio for impact reaches $100 million in commitments
OPIC, the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, first launched Portfolio for Impact (PI) in 2014 as pilot program to support promising impact investments that might struggle to raise capital because they are small or early-stage. Since that initial launch, OPIC has committed more than $100 million across 22 projects that are supporting small farmers and small businesses in emerging markets, and expanding access to food, education, healthcare, technology, financial services and clean water.
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- Investing
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Development-bank climate funds seek new dollars, as competition heats up
The $8.3-billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF), currently the world’s largest multilateral climate financing instrument, help developing states pursue low-carbon development that protects them better from wilder weather and rising seas.
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- Environment, Finance, Investing
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In Uganda, a unique urban experiment is under way
A great experiment is under way in Uganda. An industrial skyline of water and cell towers hovers over sturdy mud huts and small farm plots. Schools and health centers are built from brick, slathered in concrete, and fitted with glass windows. Taps run freshwater, and small solar panels power streetlights, as well as radios blasting music from barbershops, televisions airing soccer matches in community halls, and cell phones snaking from charging stations in shops.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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