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What Rural Solar Energy Enterprises Can Learn from Mobisol’s Hard-Earned Lesson
Energy access pioneer Mobisol’s insolvency, announced last spring, sparked questions about the industry’s health. But according to Rob Goodier, managing editor at Engineering for Change, subsequent analyses suggest that many of the company's problems were internal, not a reflection of the industry as a whole. He explores what the rural energy sector can learn from Mobisol’s struggles, based on interviews with industry insiders and two people close to the company.
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- Energy
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Kreditech, the AI-Based Near-Prime Loans Platform, Nabs $22m Under New CEO to Expand Globally
This is an equity round that it will be using to continue building its business specifically in the latter of those four countries — doubling down on the fact that India is not only one of the world’s biggest economies, but one of the fastest-growing, too.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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World Bank’s Georgieva Becomes First IMF Chief From Emerging Economy
A center-right politician who grew up in Bulgaria under Communism, Georgieva built a reputation during her time at the World Bank as a tenacious straight-shooter, champion of gender equality and leader in the global fight against climate change.
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- Finance
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Trade War Spurs India-China Digital Embrace
A new wave of Chinese upstarts is challenging, and sometimes outstripping, the U.S. in the race for 5G dominance, AI, and its downstream derivatives such as Smart Cities, Driverless cars, advanced healthcare and Financial Technology (Fintech) products.
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- Technology
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How the Digital Economy is Transforming Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
While there's a lot of discussion of the thriving digital economy in countries like China, the potential for growth in one vast region remains woefully unrecognized — Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Aleksandr Gevorkyan and Norean Sharpe at St. John’s University discuss the region's emerging digital powerhouses, and argue that – despite some key remaining challenges – these post-socialist countries are very much open for business.
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- Technology
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The World Bank Is Still Loving Its Blockchain-Powered Bonds
The World Bank’s blockchain-based bond wasn’t just a one-hit wonder.
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Economic ‘Game Changer’? African Leaders Launch Free-Trade Zone
The IMF in a May report described the free-trade zone as a potential “economic game changer” of the kind that has boosted growth in Europe and North America.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: How Robots Hurt Jobs in Emerging Economies
According to one World Bank estimate, two-thirds of jobs in developing countries could be lost to automation.
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- Technology
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