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We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘Growth’ Is a Doomed Strategy – There Is a Better Way
For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept.
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- Global
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UN Report Warns AI’s Water, Land and Climate Costs Are Rising Faster Than Governance
AI-related water consumption could equal the basic annual domestic needs of 1.3 billion people by the end of the decade.
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- Environment, Technology
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South Africa Rolls Out Game-Changing HIV Shot Amid Funding Shortfalls
Currently, access is being hampered by two things: the fact the Trump administration slashed the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding to South Africa last year, and the lack of a cheap generic.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cascador Pitch Day 2026: Over $5 Million Deployed to Seven Transformative & Impactful Entrepreneurs In Nigeria
Cascador’s ScaleUp Program works with an elite cohort of entrepreneurs to strengthen leadership, sharpen strategy, and prepare founders to scale sustainably.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPEC Fund Provides $150 Million Loan to South Africa
The loan forms part of a wider international financing package co-financed by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, KfW and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
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- Energy, Environment
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Analysis: Beyond the Horizon: What Off-Grid Solar and Clean Cooking Can Reveal About the Road Ahead for Clean Cooling
Clean cooling is at an inflection point. The need is clear, proof-of-concept technologies exist, and the market is forming. The decisions made now will shape the sector for a generation. The experience of off-grid solar and clean cooking tells us what might lie over the horizon.
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- Energy, Environment
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Analysis: What Prospects Await This Year’s Global Development Graduates?
In light of recent federal funding cuts and their impact on job opportunities, Ennis helped organize a career fair connecting students with professional opportunities and joined a team surveying global health students across four universities, where “the concern about job prospects was definitely top of mind.”
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Grant Dependency is Undermining Global Development: Here’s a Fundamentally New Architecture for Funding NGOs
Across the Global South, NGOs often function as the default conduits for addressing key development challenges in remote and marginalized populations. But as long-time development sector advisor Rajat Ray argues, these systemic problems cannot be solved by organizations that are perpetually teetering on the edge of financial suffocation, propped up by short-term, project-based grants. He explains how the survival tactics NGOs adopt to navigate this funding dilemma end up warping their operations and perpetuating some of the sector's biggest shortcomings. In response, he proposes an entirely new funding model — the “Diminishing Grant Framework” — that treats self-reliance not as an aspiration, but as a mandatory financial milestone.
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