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Gates Foundation Announces $9 Billion Budget, Plans to Cut Staff
The spending increase is part of the foundation’s commitment to accelerate its mission ahead of its planned closure in 2045.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future
Africa’s entrepreneurs are often seen as risky investments not due to any limitations of their own businesses, but because of the risks in the systems around them. As a result, as Dieuwertje Nelissen, Eveline Jansen and Rachael Kirui at Enviu argue, it's important for development stakeholders to move beyond de-risking individual businesses and to put greater effort into strengthening and de-risking the systems that support them. They explore this systemic approach in the context of African agriculture, sharing a venture-building model that can help entrepreneurs reduce early-stage risk and scale sustainable impact.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Social Enterprise
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India Wants Five Big Airlines — but Even With Two, They Are Barely Staying Afloat
Given the difficulty of sustaining airlines and the fragile finances of those still operating, India’s ambition of making flying routine for ordinary citizens may prove harder to lift off than policymakers expect.
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- Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Workwell Global Further Expands Footprint and Capability with Launch into Latin America
Workwell Global expands its in-house international capability with new teams and infrastructure in Brazil and Colombia.
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- Uncategorized
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- Latin America
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Amazon Wins Approval to Enter Nigeria’s Satellite Internet Market
The move opens competition with Starlink in the LEO satellite segment.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Softer Power: Asia’s Cultural Export Boom Is Just Beginning
While cultural change creates commercial opportunities, companies and investors must navigate a richer mosaic of cultural touchpoints.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches
Electric mobility in Africa is an emerging but highly fragmented market, defined by uneven policies, diverse vehicle types and limited scale. As a result, according to Ashay Abbhi at Intellecap and Nyaga Kebuchi at Sustainable Transport Africa, interoperability has become a critical enabler for the sector. They explore how interoperability — the ability of battery or charging systems to work seamlessly with multiple fleets of vehicles — can turn distributed hardware systems into a usable network, and discuss how the EU and India’s different routes toward interoperability can inform Africa's e-mobility transition.
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- Energy, Technology, Transportation
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India Doesn’t Need Borrowed Solutions; It Needs Local Problem-Solvers: Vikas Bali, CEO, Intellecap
Sankalp Bharat seeks to spotlight entrepreneurs from India’s tier II and III cities as the country’s next growth engine, says Vikas Bali.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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