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Cambodian Government Launches $60 Million Project to Help Small Farmers
“The supply and demand in the country is not balanced—like with vegetables, so there are imports to fill the demand,” Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak said at the event yesterday at the Commerce Ministry in Phnom Penh. “We need to understand and organize a system to boost the harvests of these crops.”
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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The peculiarities of ESG investing in China
The report found that the more strict the ESG rules a manager wants to follow, the bigger the deviations from country weightings in broad emerging market indices.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance
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The real promise of regulatory technology in financial inclusion
Financial authorities could someday run digitally, but getting there is not going to be easy. In many countries, regulators today often use fax machines, let alone cloud-based software and analytics. And yet, the future of the financial sector depends on modernizing regulatory authorities.
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- Uncategorized
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New Calvert Study Highlights Financial and Social Benefits of ESG Integration
Calvert Investments and Harvard Business School’s Serafeim suggest investors can benefit from the evaluation of companies’ environmental, social and governance efforts.
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- Investing
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Zimbabwe Caps Bank Interest Rates At 18 Percent
Zimbabwe's central bank on Wednesday capped lending rates for finance institutions at 18% and moved in to reform the banking sector in a bid to improve economic activity and enhance stability.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Are we ready for a ‘universal’ development agenda?
With so much ambition on the table, the post-2015 agenda could raise some tricky questions about living standards, environmental sustainability, and what exactly rich countries like the United States are agreeing to do over the next 15 years.
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Weekly Roundup 8/1/15: Kenya gets a pat on the back, then a lecture, and the Internet roars about Cecil
It was all about Africa this week, as President Obama (and a surprising tech luminary) visited Kenya, the country's Catholic bishops made a stunningly ill-considered public health intervention, and a lion-killing dentist in Zimbabwe became the latest person to break the Internet. We cover these developments in this week's roundup.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: India’s Chilling Crackdown on Charitable Organizations “Smacks of Political Payback”
The Ford Foundation is among the world’s best-known charitable organizations, dispensing billions of dollars globally for projects aimed at reducing poverty, fighting injustice, improving education and advancing democracy.
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- South Asia
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- governance, philanthropy
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