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Analysis: Clean-energy optimism soars as world struggles with the pandemic’s fallout
Investors see big business opportunities building renewable energy projects in emerging markets. This solar farm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua started operating in 2018.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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Viewpoint: Here’s Why Developing Countries Should Embrace Value-Based Healthcare After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Value-based healthcare (VBHC), a decades-old Harvard Business School paradigm may hold the key to building resilient, high-quality and equitable health systems of the future in developing nations.
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- Health Care
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- infrastructure
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Analysis: Covid-19, Telecommuting and Africa’s Digital Space
The workplace and the education sector can now create new, sustainable models which are accessible, inclusive and qualitative
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Healthcare Cannot Exist Without Clean Water: Why WASH is the Foundation of an Effective Pandemic Response
Hospital beds and masks are often seen as the basic elements of defense against COVID-19. Yet for many developing countries, the pandemic has exposed even more fundamental disease prevention needs – namely, clean water and sanitation. Nafisa Jiwani at U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) discusses the vital role WASH plays in combating the pandemic, and how DFC is supporting water and sanitation efforts around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing, WASH
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A New Approach to Scaling-Up Renewable Power in Emerging Markets
Solar energy has emerged as a key solution to improving access to clean and affordable energy
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- Energy, Environment
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Viewpoint: Digital Equity, More Urgent Than Ever
Experts discuss overcoming racial and geographic disparities in a post-pandemic world.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- North America
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Press Release: DFC Announces New “IQ” Development Impact Measurement Tool
“IQ is a state-of-the-art tool that allows DFC to measure our progress in fulfilling our development mandate,” said DFC Chief Executive Officer Adam Boehler. "I am extremely proud of the DFC team for its hard work in developing IQ. I also want to thank the many stakeholders that provided input along the way. I look forward to working with our stakeholders to continue refining and improving IQ.”
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For Billions Without Clean Water, ‘Wash Your Hands’ Is Complicated
Conservation News spoke with the director of Conservation International’s WASH in Watersheds program, Colleen Sorto, about how when it comes to water and human health, where your water comes from can be just as important as how you use it.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Environment, Health Care, Investing, WASH
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- infrastructure
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