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Analysis: Why Supporting SMEs Is Critical for Global Trade Stability and a More Inclusive Economy
Extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine have simultaneously created obstacles and opportunities for small businesses around the world.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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- ESG, global development, MSMEs, supply chains
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Companies’ ESG Work During 2023
The growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted its fair share of criticism in recent years just as it has become central to the conversation about how to scale up and improve ESG performance across corporate America.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Global
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U.S. Finance Faces ESG Backlash, More to Come In 2023
Focusing on environmental, social or governance-related issues, ESG in industry parlance, could hit returns to investors, critics said.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, ESG, governance
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Viewpoint: Getting the ESG Framework Right
Big and medium-sized companies in the supply chain can help by requiring MSMEs to follow the path and report on ESG aspects with rigour.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2022: Vote for Your Favorite!
It's time for NextBillion's “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest, in which we select our 12 most-read articles from the past year and invite readers to choose their favorites. We welcome you to read the articles and to vote by scrolling down to the voting app at the bottom of this announcement — or at the individual articles in the contest, which are linked in this announcement and posted on our homepage. You can vote up to one time per hour during the voting period, which will run from Dec. 21 to Jan. 3. We wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year!
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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U.S. Sustainable Investing Assets Plunge by More Than US $8 Trillion
A new report says a greenwashing crackdown by the U.S. SEC is partly driving massive reassessment of ESG assets.
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- Investing
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- North America
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- ESG, greenwashing
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Press Release: The ESG Power 50 Announces the Middle East’s 50 Most Influential ESG Leaders of 2022
The ESG Power 50 is an initiative launched to recognise the trailblazers in the Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) function.
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- Environment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- North Africa & Near East
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Viewpoint: Can We Rewrite the Rules of Green Finance Quickly Enough?
The use of ESG analysis in investment decision-making is still routinely conflated with the measurement of sustainable outcomes. We need a sharper lens.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Global
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