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Building an Ecosystem to Save an Ecosystem: How Facilitating Climate Finance for MSMEs Can Fight Global Climate Change
Climate finance has become a buzzword for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) working on climate solutions. But with the unique challenges these enterprises face, it has become increasingly clear that the global development community will need to reimagine the entire ecosystem in order to get them the funding they need. Santosh Kumar Singh and Ankit Gupta at Intellecap discuss the obstacles to climate finance for MSMEs, and how best to overcome them.
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: We’re All Actors in the New Silk Road Play
It’s easy to forget that the Belt and Road Initiative – a massive connectivity project, both geo-strategic and geo-economic, now in effect all across the Eurasian landmass, as well as straddling the South China Sea, plus the Indian Ocean all the way to East Africa – is less than six years old, and projected to last until 2049.
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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UK Public Pension Pool Allocates $60m to Private Equity Impact Fund
Brunel Pension Partnership has made a cornerstone $60m (€54m) commitment to a private equity impact fund on behalf of four of its UK local government pension scheme (LGPS) clients.
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- Investing
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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Bringing the Tech Revolution to Health Care: New Report Provides First-Ever Snapshot of Global Digital Health Ecosystems
As the role of technology in health ecosystems grows, the global health sector needs a data-driven approach to measure and improve the status of digital health structures. That's the goal of the Global Digital Health Index (GDHI), an interactive digital resource that tracks, monitors and evaluates how health care providers use digital technology. Joanne Ke Edelman at the Global Development Incubator explores how data collected from 22 countries for GDHI’s inaugural “State of Digital Health” report provides the first-ever snapshot of digital health ecosystems throughout the world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Mental Health Breaks Through in Global Health
“In addition to being the leading cause of suffering in the world today, mental illness is also the least attended problem and perhaps the most stigmatized,” said Paul Farmer, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, at the celebration.
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- Health Care
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The Impact of Equal Education: Solutions to the Gender Disparity in Sub-Saharan African Schools
About 132 million girls are out of school around the world, and the problem is fundamentally tied to gender. With issues ranging from child marriage to misperceptions about menstruation, girls face unique obstacles to education in many countries. Mark Buttweiler explores how Bridge International Academies is tackling the gender disparity, via a multifaceted, research-based approach that supports equality both in the classroom and the surrounding community.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Can the Microcredit Model Be Improved?
Microcredit is frequently touted as an effective policy tool to fight global poverty. But studies suggest that the long-term impact on recipients’ lives is limited. Yale SOM’s Mushfiq Mobarak and the University of Chicago’s Vikas Dimble write that microcredit can help more people by modifying and extending its model.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Viewpoint: Melinda Gates: How I Learned to See Agriculture (And Everything Else) as a Gender Issue
I'm embarrassed to say it now, but at the time, I wasn't thinking much about gender inequalities in connection to our anti-poverty work. I definitely wasn't thinking about them in relation to agriculture. I bet if you'd asked me to close my eyes and picture one of the farmers we were trying to reach, I would've pictured a man.
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- Agriculture