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Amazon is investing millions to keep packaging out of landfills
There's plenty of work to be done: The United Nations says about 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced every year, and global plastic production is expected to triple by 2050.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: As Safaricom turns 18, has its innovation ‘conveyor belt’ slowed?
After the global acclaimed mobile money transfer service Mpesa, Safaricom has not had another innovation that has captured its users.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cash triumphs in Kenya’s public buses as train, taxis embrace cashless system
The cashless system had the backing of the government, top telecommunication firms and banks, which touted the cards as the panacea to end corruption on the road and curb haphazard fare increases.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In African cities, the “gig economy” is called the economy
For many African countries, the gig economy could just be called “the economy.” For example, just 17% of Kenyan employment is formal. Many of these economies are driven by the informal nature of the gainful employment that exists.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment
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Women Worldwide Struggle to Access Banking Services. Bitcoin Is Only Making That Worse
Blockchain technology is currently being used to distribute aid to 100,000 Syrian refugeesby The World Food Programme. And plans for future blockchain initiatives within the U.N. alone run from ending child trafficking to providing services for women and girls in humanitarian settings.
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- Finance
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Viewpoint: The Green Lobby’s Misdirected Anger
There are only two ways for the world to avoid what most scientists refer to as disastrous global warming. One way is to stop economic growth, which would be immoral, while the other would require us to deploy our greatest natural resource.
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- Energy, Environment
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- climate change
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Trifecta looks overseas for its 7.5 billion rupee second fund
Trifecta Fund II expects to achieve a first close of 2.5 billion by the end of 2019, says Trifecta Capital co-founder and managing partner Rahul Khanna.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Impact investing task-force created to draw in the private sector in South Africa
The task-force’s mission is to mobilise capital that will go into growing small businesses, dealing with unemployment and inequity, as well as investing in economic and social infrastructure such as education and healthcare facilities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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