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Analysis: Beyond the Horizon: What Off-Grid Solar and Clean Cooking Can Reveal About the Road Ahead for Clean Cooling
Clean cooling is at an inflection point. The need is clear, proof-of-concept technologies exist, and the market is forming. The decisions made now will shape the sector for a generation. The experience of off-grid solar and clean cooking tells us what might lie over the horizon.
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- Energy, Environment
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Analysis: What Prospects Await This Year’s Global Development Graduates?
In light of recent federal funding cuts and their impact on job opportunities, Ennis helped organize a career fair connecting students with professional opportunities and joined a team surveying global health students across four universities, where “the concern about job prospects was definitely top of mind.”
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- Education
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- Global
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Analysis: A Path Through AI Overwhelm
Many social impact leaders feel pressure to engage with AI but are overwhelmed and lack a clear starting point.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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Analysis: AI Is Minting New Billionaires, and Workers Want Their Share
From Kenyan data annotators to Hollywood actors, laborers across the supply chain are challenging the surge in “AI billionaires” as automation continues to drive widespread job cuts.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Global Energy Alliance and World Bank Group Partner to Expand Productive Use of Energy Across Africa
As access expands, the next challenge is ensuring that electricity supports livelihoods and economic activity across households, businesses and communities.
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- Energy
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- Global
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Five Early Observations as Global Health Transition Accelerates
What has happened over the past two years should serve as a warning, and planning for the current reality means differentiating where limited technical assistance resources go based on transition timelines, portfolio size, and feasibility rather than applying the same framework everywhere.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Analysis: AI Is Killing the Cheap Smartphone
In 2026, the International Data Corporation, which tracks the smartphone market, predicted that worldwide smartphone shipments would fall 13 percent, their largest single-year decline ever.
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- Technology
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Viewpoint: AI in Global Health Is a Familiar Story With an Uncertain Ending
Opinion: Without foundational investments in data systems, governance, and capacity, AI in global health risks becoming the latest promising innovation to fail in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Technology
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