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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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- Technology
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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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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
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- 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
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- 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.