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Bono Is Really Into Drones Now (But It’s Good)
The U2 frontman has just joined the board of Zipline, a medical delivery drone company that’s already saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Africa No Continent for Old Men
Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies.Increasingly, Africa’s brightest young minds are channeling their focus toward entrepreneurship as a means to create more just and equitable societies. Much of this can be attributed to the perceived dysfunction of the public sector over the comparatively robust nongovernment sectors.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Frontier Finance’ Is Scaling up to Achieve United Nations Goals
New report on impact investment shows that big opportunities exist to make money and achieve global development targets.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: China’s Belt and Road Global Infrastructure Plans Are Dooming the Planet
Unless the United States challenges Chinese claims and competes with Chinese development projects, Beijing will continue to diplomatically benefit from asserting leadership with little cost.
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- Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How BRAC, the World’s Biggest Charity, Made Bangladesh Richer
Ms. Akter came to the attention of brac, a charity so ubiquitous in Bangladesh that in some rural areas you see one of its pink-and-white signs every few miles. brac made her an offer she could hardly refuse.
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Press Release: UNDP Launches Standards to Guide Private Sector in Achieving SDGs
The UNDP Practice Standards for Private Equity provide practical guideposts that make it easier for the private sector to operationalize the SDGs and shorten the runway from interest in to adoption of good impact practice.
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- global development, SDGs
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UBS Invests $225M in KKR Global Impact
The UBS fund-raising, from its global private client base, nudges the global wealth management firm closer to a commitment to raise US$5 billion within five years to address the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: Cloud Computing Could Be Key to Speeding up Africa’s Development
What’s especially useful about cloud computing is that companies or organisations don’t need to own computing infrastructure or data centres. Instead, they can rent access to storage and applications, among other things, from a cloud service provider. This allows them to get access to sophisticated capabilities on demand. And they don’t have to spend a great deal of money building and maintaining IT infrastructure on site.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, global development, SDGs
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