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Second Emerging Markets CLO Advances World Bank Group Push to Mobilize Private Capital for Jobs
This strategic approach is designed to attract private capital at scale for investments in productive sectors with the greatest potential to create jobs and drive growth.
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- Investing
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The True Cost of Impact-First Investing
Drawing on one of the first collaborative cost studies of its kind, spanning eight leading impact-first investment organizations managing $197.2 million across 362 investments, this paper challenges one of the sector’s most persistent myths: that impact-first funds are inherently inefficient.
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- Investing
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- data, impact investing, research
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Press Release: United States Announces More Than $1 Billion in Assistance to UNICEF and World Food Program to Address Global Humanitarian Needs
The more than $218 million in assistance to UNICEF and more than $800 million to WFP announced today are the second and third in a series of global State Department awards to trusted and vetted implementing organizations.
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2026 Coffee Barometer: Sustainability Cannot be Built on Permanently Cheap Coffee
The newly released 2026 Coffee Barometer exposes systemic flaws in the global coffee industry over the past 20 years.
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- Agriculture
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Report: 810 Million Women Still Not Using Mobile Internet in Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Compared to 595 Million Men
Persistent barriers such as those related to affordability, skills and safety concerns continue to limit women’s digital inclusion in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Finance
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Press Release: ResponsAbility Finances Robust International to Strengthen Climate-Smart Agricultural Supply Chains in Emerging Markets
The strategy is structured around three core pillars: climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and sustainable production and consumption.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘Growth’ Is a Doomed Strategy – There Is a Better Way
For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept.
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Analysis: India Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater. These Two Engineers Decided to Turn It Back Into a Resource.
India generates 72,000 million litres of wastewater every day. It treats 28 percent of it. The other 72 percent flows, untreated, into rivers, lakes, and land. Amrit Nayak and Krunal Patel think the problem is not the water — it is the architecture of how treatment gets built.
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- WASH
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