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Analysis: Inside Southeast Asia’s Scam Compounds: A Trafficked Worker Tells of Fraud, Coercion and Torture
Many powerful entities, including criminal organizations, businesses and politicians, have an interest in the system continuing. If scam compounds close in Cambodia, they will open elsewhere.
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- Technology, Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Philanthropy Is Underestimating AI. Here’s How to Catch Up
If you are operating a philanthropy and you think your only engagement with AI needs to be in your internal practices or in “AI for XYZ” (eg., better farming), I ask you to consider doing more.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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India’s Snabbit Closes $56 Million Round as Investor Interest in On-Demand Home Services Heats Up
Snabbit’s fundraise comes as investor interest in India’s on-demand home services sector heats up.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- employment, gig economy, startups
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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.
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: British International Investment Targets £15 Billion of Capital for Developing Economies as It Launches Climate Initiative as Part of New Five-Year Strategy
British Climate Partners will target highest emitting developing economies with over £1 billion in climate finance.
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- Environment, Finance
- 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
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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Kenyan Firm Sacks More Than 1,000 Workers After Losing Meta Contract
Meta paused work with Sama last month after allegations about staff viewing private scenes filmed by smart glasses.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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