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Analysis: Supercharging Network Intelligence
How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Drip Capital Surpasses $9 Billion in Trade Transactions as SMBs Navigate Shifting Global Supply Chains
SMBs continue to face a substantial working capital gap, with traditional banks pulling back on small business lending and alternative lenders increasingly unable to meet the scale or speed that global trade requires.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Dodai Closes $13 Million Series A to Scale E-Mobility in Ethiopia
Over the next 12 months, the company aims to reach 3,000 battery swapping users supported by 30 battery swapping stations across Addis Ababa.
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- Global
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India’s Largest Drugmaker, Sun Pharma, to Buy U.S. Firm Organon in $11.75 Billion Deal
The acquisition will lift Sun Pharmaceutical’s revenues to $ 12.4 billion, ranking it among the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Africa’s Firms are Not Growing—New Data Reveal a Jobs Challenge
Across 48 Sub-Saharan African economies, a firm that has operated for nearly three decades employs barely twice the workers it had at birth. The gap relative to high-income economies is large, structural, and costly.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regional Leaders Launch Blended Finance Initiative to Expand Surgical Care Across Latin America and the Caribbean
An estimated 5 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, with disproportionate impact in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Latin America
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New Digital Initiative to Support Alternative Livelihoods in South Africa’s Coal-Mining Communities
TechnoServe's new initiative will leverage educational technology to help entrepreneurs in coal-dependent communities build businesses and create jobs.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Competition to Provide Satellite Internet Heats Up in Africa
The GSMA, the global mobile industry trade body, found sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s largest usage gap for mobile internet — 60% of its population lives within mobile broadband coverage but can’t get online due to various barriers, with handset costs cited as the biggest factor.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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