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Analysis: When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.
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- Education, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Viewpoint: Rethinking Development Funding Means Making It Matter to the Median Voter
Development assistance that connects global impact with national interest is a formula that voters can understand.
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TenPay Global And Mastercard Collaborate to Enable Fast And Secure Remittances to Weixin Pay
With the steady rise in international travel, global commerce, and overseas employment, the demand for fast, secure and convenient cross-border money transfers continues to accelerate.
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- Technology
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Viewpoint: There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
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Analysis: Big Bets and Broken Unicorns: Tiger Global’s Rise and Reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
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Shell Foundation and Accion Open Applications for ClimaFii Alliance Second Cohort
The Climate and Finance Innovations (ClimaFii) Alliance continues its mission to bring financing and sustainable energy solutions to microenterprises across sub-Saharan Africa and India.
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- Social Enterprise
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Analysis: Anxiety Brews at World Bank Over Workforce Overhaul
Mounting questions over World Bank’s sweeping consultant purge; the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation expands beyond critical minerals; and developing countries hit the largest debt financing gap in 50 years.
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Gave $7.1 Billion to Nonprofits in 2025, a Major Increase
Scott’s donations have captured the attention of nonprofits and other charitable funders because they come with no strings attached and are often very large compared to the annual budgets of the recipient organizations.
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