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19 Firms Get $1.5 Million Grant to Boost Solar-Powered Businesses in Africa
The programme which aims to deploy 3,800 productive use appliances, including solar-powered water pumps, refrigerators and milling machines, while creating over 3,000 green jobs across the three countries.Eight Nigerian companies were among the beneficiaries selected for the initiative.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Building AI on African Terms
AI promises new opportunities for African businesses, but it also risks deepening technological dependency.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ADB Approves $50 Million Loan to Modernize Nepal’s Customs, Boost Trade and Jobs
Aligned with Nepal’s Sixteenth Plan and broader efforts to promote private sector-led growth, diversify the economy, and strengthen resilience, the reforms support the implementation of the Government of Nepal’s Customs Reform and Modernization Plan, Trade Logistics Policy, and new Industrial and Logistics Trade Master Plan.
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- South Asia
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The AI-Powered World Cup Runs on Thousands of Data Workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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- Technology
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- Global
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Analysis: ‘Who Is Going to Pay Us When We’re Replaced by Robots?’ The Indian Factory Workers Told to Film Themselves for AI
First-person recordings of human movements and interactions are called egocentric data and are vital for training robots that might one day replace humans on the production line.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Africa’s Green Transition to Create Up to 84 Million Jobs by 2050 but It Risks Embedding Inequality Without Urgent Action
Africa’s green transition could generate up to 84.5 million jobs by 2050 but without concerted policy action the benefits risk entrenching inequality rather than reducing it.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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Uganda: African Development Bank Group Approves $140 Million Programme to Expand Irrigation, Agro-Industrialisation, Jobs and Rural Incomes
The Uganda Multipurpose Water for Climate Resilient Irrigation Development and Agro-Industrialization Programme aims to overcome constraints to agricultural production and food insecurity across rural communities which depend heavily on rain fed agriculture.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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