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Press Release: Henry Closes Us $1.5 Million Seed Round Led by Accion Venture Lab to Provide Technical Education to Students in Latin America
Henry’s model leverages remote learning and innovative financing structure (ISA) to provide technology courses for no upfront costs
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- Education
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- Latin America
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More Dough for Cocoa Farmers
Ice cream icon Ben & Jerry’s pioneers holistic approach to living incomes for cocoa farmers, in partnership with Fairtrade
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Viewpoint: The Race Against Economic Inequality Within Emerging Markets – a Case for SMEs
One of the great challenges of the 21st Century is the need to reduce poverty levels and economic inequality globally. Economic growth is the most powerful tool for reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in developing countries.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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COVID-19 Has Resulted in Largest Global Economic Contraction in 80 Years, Say World Bank and IMF
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund said the global economic contraction caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is the largest in the last eight decades, raising the world poverty rate, exacerbating inequalities and damaging long-term economic growth prospects.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: 4 Ways Our COVID-19 Recovery Can Tackle Climate Change and Global Inequality
The COVID-19 crisis has shown how deep inequalities make society as a whole more vulnerable —providing important lessons for building resilience in an era of climate change.
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- Coronavirus, Environment, Investing
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Pandemic Makes Tackling Global Woes More Critical Than Ever – Bill Gates
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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The Case for Stakeholder Dividends: Why It’s Time for the Financial Sector to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
While the financial devastation of COVID-19 may remind America's working families of the 2008 crisis, Peter Tufano and Timothy Flacke at Commonwealth argue that this time, banks can be the heroes rather than the villains. They explain why this will require banks to make a pivotal choice between enriching their shareholders and supporting their stakeholders – including the country's most vulnerable customers.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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The UN Development Goals Are ‘Seriously off Track,’ an Expert Says
Reducing inequality within and among countries is a Sustainable Development Goal that is not progressing, as evidenced in demonstrations that erupted in many parts of the United States and abroad this year.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Impact Assessment
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