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Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Invests $30 Million in Eastcastle Infrastructure
The project aims to include benefits associated with democratizing access to markets.
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- Investing, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure, MSMEs
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Indonesia’s Baskit Secures $3.3 Million Seed Round to Digitize Distribution Infrastructure for SMEs
By helping SMEs in their digital transformation, Baskit aims to create more efficient supply chains efficiency and access to financing.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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UN, GGGI and Government of Cambodia Announce Support to Green Bond Issuers
ESCAP and its partners are pleased to announce that three private-sector bond issuers have been selected and will be provided with green and sustainability bond issuance support in 2023.
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Press Release: IFC Supports SEACOM to Boost Digital Connectivity for African Businesses in Seven Countries
IFC has partnered with SEACOM to boost broadband access in Africa and increase the availability of IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: United States Announces $89 Million Award to Advance Access to Clean, Reliable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Power Africa program will support 10 million on- and off-grid connections for households and businesses in the region.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micron Nears $1 Billion Investment in India Chip Packaging Plant
The Indian investment would follow a Chinese ban on the use of Micron chips in what Beijing called critical infrastructure.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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IndusInd Bank Announces Partnership with Wise to Offer Low-Cost Online Inward Remittance Services
IndusInd Bank has today announced its partnership with Wise, the global technology company specializing in moving and managing money around the world.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How Innovation Created an Off-Grid Solar Market in Rural Bangladesh — And What Other Countries Can Learn from this Model
In the early 2000s, a small-scale World Bank pilot project in Bangladesh unexpectedly grew into the largest off-grid solar program in the world. According to Nancy Wimmer at microSOLAR, the program's success provided the rest of the world with a model for how low- and middle-income countries can develop a nationwide, rural market for decentralized solar systems driven by home-grown companies. She explores how other countries can adapt Bangladesh’s market-creating innovations to their own local environments.
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- Energy, Technology