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Viewpoint: Will COVID-19 Accelerate the Renewable Energy Transition in Emerging Markets?
With new data showing that global carbon emissions are rebounding more quickly than expected after coronavirus lockdowns are eased, questions are being asked about the prospects for renewable energy projects in emerging markets.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Emergency Funding and COVID-19 Crisis Counseling for Miller Center Entrepreneurs
Back in March and April, the folks at the Pollinate Group were in a state of emergency, like most small businesses around the world. For the past seven years, the Melbourne, Australia-based enterprise had trained and developed women in poor areas in India and Nepal, teaching them the skills needed to sell solar lights, clean cookstoves and other products likely to improve community members’ quality of life.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Entrepreneurship
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Not Just Another Startup Accelerator in India: How the Financial Inclusion Lab is Shining a Light on Underserved Customers
India today has an accelerator for almost every domain, ranging from fintechs to healthcare. But as analysts at MSC point out, many of these accelerators face a common shortcoming: a lack of inclusivity. They discuss how the Financial Inclusion Lab accelerator avoids that issue, and how it boosts startups to strengthen the financial inclusion movement in India.
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- Finance, Technology
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Press Release: The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Announces Winners of the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund
Fund will distribute up to $1.2 million in grant capital across eight winning proposals out of a pool of more than 180 total applications
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Now More Than Ever
The report analyzes the impact on extreme poverty of global economic contractions at three levels. In the best-case scenario, a 5% contraction, the researchers anticipate that 87 million people would fall into extreme poverty – half of them in South Asia where Upaya works.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Catalyst Fund Welcomes Four African Investors Into Its Exclusive Fintech Fold
The six will join Catalyst Fund’s Circle of Investors, a collaborative, global community of investors committed to backing inclusive fintech startups.
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- Finance
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- accelerators, BFA, emerging markets, fintech, investors, startups
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Kenyan Startups Among Winners of Google’s Accelerator Program
“The start-ups accepted into the program will receive free support from Google around technology improvement, product improvement, design, growth and leadership training. They will also be paired with a Google Start-up Success Manager to work with them to improve their businesses,” said Dorothy Ooko, Google’s head of communications in Africa.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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From the Valley of Death to a $14 Million Series A: Sokowatch, Quona and the Role of Philanthropic Capital
The e-commerce company Sokowatch recently raised a $14 million Series A round, enabling it to expand its digital financial services to more merchants in Africa. But just two years ago, the company was in danger of going under. Malika Anand and Maelis Carraro at BFA’s Catalyst Fund discuss how the fund's philanthropically-funded acceleration approach has helped Sokowatch – and other promising fintech startups – survive the “valley of death” and position themselves for commercial investment.
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