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ADB Accelerates Nature Finance at COP17 with New Bond, Incubator, and Tracking Report
The initiatives, announced at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Yerevan, seek to expand private investment in protecting ecosystems that support billions of lives.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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Research: Policy Roadmaps Point the Way to Impact Economy Development in Peru, Central America, and Zambia
The findings provide policymakers opportunities to mobilise private capital towards national priorities – supporting inclusive growth, job creation, climate resilience and micro, small, and medium enterprises.
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ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap Launched at AEBF-26 to Accelerate a Clean, Inclusive and Resilient Energy Future
The ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap (ETIR) was launched at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum (AEBF-26), providing a new regional analysis of how Southeast Asia’s energy system could evolve to meet rising energy demand while advancing the region’s long-term carbon neutrality ambitions.
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Analysis: Beyond Capital: What It Will Take to Unlock Investment in Africa’s Social Enterprises
Isaac Aggrey of the African Social Entrepreneurs Network explores what it takes to unlock investment for Africa’s social enterprises and SMEs. Beyond capital, he highlights investment readiness, appropriate finance, risk-sharing, market access and impact measurement as critical to helping viable enterprises grow, create jobs, empower women and strengthen inclusive, resilient economies across Africa.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: World Bank Says ‘Small AI’ Could Transform Developing Countries
Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades.
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BII Targets $1.6 Billion for Climate Finance in South-East Asia
The capital will be used to support developing economies in South-East Asia, including Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, which rely on high-emitting fossil fuel power generation, to transit to a renewables-based future.
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- Environment, Investing
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Impact Entrepreneurship During the Polycrisis: An Interview with Laurie Lane-Zucker
The impact sector has proven that business can do good. But how can it make those impacts last, as the polycrisis puts communities, ecosystems and business models at increasing risk around the world? Those are some of the questions at the heart of a new book, “The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy,” by Laurie Lane-Zucker, the founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur. In this interview, he shares guidance from the book — and from his decades of work as a pioneering voice in the impact space — on how the sector can navigate the growing complexity of the global challenges it faces today.
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Is the World Bank to Blame for the Cambodian Microfinance Crisis?
For the past five years, Cambodia’s microfinance sector has been experiencing a major over-indebtedness crisis. And as inclusive finance consultant Daniel Rozas explains, despite multiple warnings that the sector was overheating, IFC, the World Bank’s private investment arm, poured fuel on the flames by investing in the largest and fastest-growing of the country's leading microfinance institutions. Making matters worse, after an investigation by IFC’s own ombudsman concluded that clients had been harmed due to its failure to monitor the social risks created by its investments, its board dismissed those findings. He explores how the industry went off the rails in Cambodia, and argues that IFC not only worsened the crisis, it helped undermine the sector’s own efforts to avert it.
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