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Bill, Melinda Gates Pour $200 Million in Pakistan’s Poverty Alleviation Program
“I’m pleased that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will assist with a range of activities including accelerating stunting reduction programs, supporting financial inclusion initiatives and investing in public health systems to improve health and reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality,” Prime Minister Imran Khan said at the occasion.
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World Bank’s Georgieva Becomes First IMF Chief From Emerging Economy
A center-right politician who grew up in Bulgaria under Communism, Georgieva built a reputation during her time at the World Bank as a tenacious straight-shooter, champion of gender equality and leader in the global fight against climate change.
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Press Release: ANDE, USAID and Visa Foundation Partner to Launch ANDE Gender Equality Initiative and Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund
The initiative’s first activity, the Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund, seeks to address the gap in access to finance for women-led businesses.
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The Development Tool Nobody’s Using: Why it’s Time for the Women’s Empowerment Sector to Leverage Media and Advertising
In women’s economic empowerment circles, there’s no shortage of initiatives involving corporate partnerships with NGOs - often focused on agriculture or garment supply chains. But as Mara Bolis at Oxfam points out, this focus has led the sector to overlook other potential areas of impact – including media and advertising. Sharing some compelling examples, she argues that media could have as much – or even more – influence in shaping women’s economic opportunities as changes to global value chains.
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- Technology
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We Need a More Targeted Approach to Combatting Global Inequality
Reducing inequality around the world poses different challenges than it does in the United States.
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Gates Foundation Identifies a Tech ‘Trinity’ to Bolster Digital Inclusion Around the World
The Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkeepers Data Report takes stock of progress toward the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, a set of objectives to curb poverty, climate change, inequality and injustice by 2030. The latest report, just released, calls for renewed efforts related to primary health care, digital inclusion and adaptation to climate change.
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Big Promises, Few Results: Chinese Farms Falter in Uganda
These projects fly under the radar, compared with China’s high-profile Belt and Road Initiative. But what was first touted as major progress in the making is seen by locals as merely an obstacle to individual livelihoods.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Renewable Energy Initiative Aims to Bring a Billion People in From the Dark
Worldwide commission aims to end energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia by driving investment in new technology.
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- Energy
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