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Analysis: Your Next Nurse May Monitor You From the Philippines
The country has grown into a “clinical process outsourcing powerhouse … [and] a premier global hub for supporting overstressed international healthcare systems,” JL Botor, president of HIMAP, told Rest of World.
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names Ian H. Solomon President and CEO
Ian Solomon is currently the dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
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MIGA, Deutsche Bank Partner to Increase Trade Finance in Frontier and Emerging Markets with EUR 1 Billion Guarantee Platform
The platform is not only seeking to expand access to trade finance but also has targets to direct a meaningful share of the trade finance volume enabled by MIGA's participation toward priority areas, including International Development Association (IDA) countries and Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations (FCS), small and medium enterprises (SMEs), agriculture, health, and water.
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Viewpoint: Please Stop Designing Humanitarian Solutions for Donor Funding
DEEP, the Data Entry and Exploration Platform, is one of the 11 case studies documented in NetHope’s new Harnessing AI for Humanitarian Impact report.
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A New Chapter for the GIIN
Today’s world is very different from the world we were in when the GIIN started. Discourse has evolved from whether investors should pursue impact to how they do so in an incredibly dynamic and tumultuous time. It’s a pivotal moment for the impact investing industry and the GIIN because the need for solutions makes our work more vital than ever.
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Analysis: Green Crime Goes Global
Environmental crime has become so extensive that it is reshaping the global policy agenda, evolving from a niche concern to an urgent topic of international diplomacy.
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- Environment, Finance, Technology
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Analysis: Why Nuclear Power Is Moving Back Into the Global Development Agenda
Nuclear power is moving back into the development-finance debate as the IAEA and World Bank Group deepen cooperation on reliable, low-carbon electricity. The shift comes as emerging economies face rising power demand, widening investment needs and growing pressure to expand energy access without locking in higher emissions.
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Research: Microplastic Pollution Can Fuel Rise in Antibiotic Resistance
Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are usually regarded as separate global crises. But emerging research suggests links between them: Microplastic particles in the environment are colonized by bacteria, and those bacteria develop antibiotic resistance at an unprecedented rate.
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- Health Care, WASH
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