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India’s Quest to Build the World’s Largest Solar Farms
Pavagada Ultra Mega Solar Park, a clean-power plant the size of Manhattan, could be a model for the world—or a cautionary tale.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- renewable energy, solar
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Avaada Raises $1 Billion from Brookfield for Manufacturing of Green Hydrogen and Solar Modules in India
Global Power Synergy Public Company will further invest $68 million in Avaada Energy for releasing debt obligations and supporting growth.
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- Energy
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Asia’s EV Race: Selex Motors Raises $3 Million From Asian Development Bank Ventures, Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia and Others
The fund will help to expand production lines and support vehicle sales while setting up battery-swapping systems in key cities in Vietnam.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Heat Last Year, Untimely Rains This Year: India’s Wheat Crop Takes a Hit Again
Devinder Sharma believes the existing crop insurance scheme has been designed to benefit the private insurance companies rather than the farmers.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- agtech, climate change, data, impact measurement, insurance, scale
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ASEAN Social Enterprises Development Programme (ASEAN SEDP) 2023
This programme will provide social enterprises in the ASEAN region with access to opportunities to improve their ventures through increasing access to finance.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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Indonesian Healthcare Firm Bags $2 Million to Digitalize Medical Records in Hospitals
Zi.Care, which has digitised the medical record for 100-plus hospitals, looks to raise a total of US$3M in the Series A round.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Combatting India’s Learning Crisis Through Innovations in Financing: ‘How’ We Fund Is as Important as ‘What’ We Fund
Over the last few years OBF has created a paradigm shift for the way that capital is deployed to solve for intractable development challenges such as learning poverty.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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ZestMoney Set to Lay Off Around 100 Employees After Acquisition Deal With PhonePe Falls Through
According to reports, the fintech company will trim its workforce by around 20% as part of its business continuity and survival plan.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific