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‘Doktari’ Turns Plastic Bags Into Building Materials
Meet Dr Oscar Joshua Aghan, who uses plastic bags that are still in circulation to make building materials.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Charting a Path for a Resilient Recovery in Sub Saharan Africa
Countries need to ensure that the vast global fiscal support deployed to fight the pandemic also works to build a smarter, greener and more equitable future.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC Approves $3.6 Billion of New Investments in Global Development in Largest Quarter Ever
An additional 30 investments totaling more than $1 billion were approved by the agency since its last quarterly Board meeting in June, bringing total investments approved over the quarter to more than $3.6 billion.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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Analysis: Why Hasn’t Africa Gone Digital?
Countries with weak power infrastructures—which were already struggling to compete in the new digital economy—are facing bleak prospects in a post-lockdown world in which Zoom, Dropbox and Google Classroom are the new office or school.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Securing Property and Land Rights in India
Secure property rights are fundamental to the economic and social development of any country. However, in India, we are faced with a curious conundrum where more than 70 percent of a household’s assets are held in land and housing, yet there is insufficient data and research on people’s property rights.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology, WASH
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: The Rise of Water Investing
Clean water and sanitation for all is the subject of the United Nations’ sixth sustainable development goal, and an increasingly relevant topic to both emerging markets and the developed world. The need for water infrastructure is great in the developing world, and in the developed world, ensuring access to clean water is an ever-present issue, as recent crises have illustrated. This brings opportunities for investors.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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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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