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Press Release: IFAD and Government of India Launch Eight-Year Roadmap to Expand Investments and Scale Incomes in Rural Areas
The new Country Strategic Opportunities Programme sets two strategic objectives: enhancing the social, economic and climatic resilience of rural communities; and strengthening the knowledge systems that enable proven models to be scaled domestically and shared across the Global South.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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Shell Foundation, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship, and Amazon India Announces New Programme to Empower Women Micro Entrepreneurs through Market Connect and Clean Energy Access
his collaboration addresses these challenges by connecting women-led businesses to new customers through Amazon’s Saheli program, which offers lower selling fees and specialized support, including account management and training.
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- Agriculture, Education, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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SIDBI and Shell Foundation Launch US $3.1 Million Initiative to Expand Access to Green Finance for Nano-Entrepreneurs
Backed by a $3.1 million grant from Shell Foundation, the EN-Trans RSF provides a second-loss risk coverage to Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs), including SIDBI as a lender, for loans extended to low-income communities.
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- Investing
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Women Farmers Remain the Missing Link in India’s Digital Agriculture Push
Indian agriculture is intricately connected with gender, caste, patriarchy and entrenched power relations; without accounting for these, digital agriculture will be insufficient to transform rural livelihoods in real terms.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Amazon, Meta Join Fight to End Google Pay, PhonePe Dominance in India
PhonePe and Google Pay combined accounted for roughly 80% of the 22.6 billion transactions on the UPI network in March, data from NPCI shows.
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- Technology
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India’s Snabbit Closes $56 Million Round as Investor Interest in On-Demand Home Services Heats Up
Snabbit’s fundraise comes as investor interest in India’s on-demand home services sector heats up.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- employment, gig economy, startups
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Gig Workers’ Body Seeks Binding Heatwave Safeguards From Labour Ministry
The association has called for paid cooling breaks during IMD red and orange alerts, mandatory access to drinking water and cooling shelters, in-app heat distress emergency support systems, among other measures, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by Business Standard.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Spill Games Raises $3.1 Million to Build a Systems-Led Global Mobile Gaming Company From India
Spill Games, a Bengaluru mobile gaming startup, raised USD 3.1 million Seed funding led by Centre Court Capital and PeerCapital to scale its systems driven casual games portfolio.
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- Investing, Technology
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