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Press Release: Atlas AI Launches Aperture™ – Unlocking Unparalleled Insight to Target Investment and Drive Impact in Emerging Markets
Atlas AI today announced the launch of Aperture™, a market and economic intelligence platform unlocking unparalleled insight into demographic, economic and infrastructure conditions across the emerging markets.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report Spotlights Drug Firms’ Supply Chain Initiatives, Hurdles in LMICs
The almost yearly Access to Medicine Index measures the 20 behemoths of the pharmaceutical industry, encapsulating 70% of global pharmaceutical revenues. However, the report doesn't look at the bottom line: It looks at medicine accessibility in low- and middle-income companies (LMICs), and—as with everything in the past year—COVID-19 made its mark, demanding supply chain innovation and collaboration in new ways.
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- Coronavirus
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Analysis: Developing Countries Offer Enormous Market Potential for Long-Duration Energy Storage
Achieving deep decarbonization of the global energy system requires energy storage that can store more energy for longer durations. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, thus far, have played a key role in supporting the integration of renewable energy resources into the electric grid. But as the share of variable renewable energy in power systems increases around the world, new energy technologies that can store electricity for longer durations at low cost are needed.
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- Energy, Technology
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AXA IM Alts Leads New Investment Round in Sanergy’s Africa and Asia Expansion
With AXA IM Alts’s support, Sanergy would be well-positioned to scale its operations in Kenya and across the region.
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- Agriculture, Environment, WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation, recycling
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Christensen Institute, MIT Legatum Center Launch Bootcamp for African Innovators
The Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank based in Boston and Silicon Valley in the United States, has announced a collaboration with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship aimed at empowering early-stage entrepreneurs in seven African countries to create new economic growth engines. The new collaboration, called Market-creating Innovation (MCI) Bootcamp, aims to bridge the gap between emerging market entrepreneurs and market-creating innovation opportunities.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MercadoLibre to Expand Electric Fleet After $1.1 Billion Bond Sale
Latin American eCommerce giant MercadoLibre has sold $1.1 billion in bonds to expand its fleet of electric-powered delivery vehicles.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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Surveying the Landscape for Social Investments in Africa: A Major New Study Assesses the Current State of Play on the Continent
The social investment sector in Africa is dynamic and growing – but it’s struggling to close the enormous Sustainable Development Goals financing gap. The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) explored the opportunities and obstacles facing social investors on the continent in an ambitious new study, “The Landscape for Social Investments in Africa.” NextBillion interviewed AVPA’s CEO, Frank Aswani, to discuss the study’s findings, and what they say about the current state of social investment in Africa.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Innovation for Adaptation: How a New Fund Is Helping Service Providers Navigate the Challenges of COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 has been amplified at the local level in Kenya and Rwanda, where non-profit service providers working with vulnerable populations are finding it more difficult to support their beneficiaries. Michael Kiema and Linda Ndungu Wambua at Instiglio explore learnings from the COVID-19 Adaptation Fund, which is providing funding to nine qualifying service providers to help them implement innovations that will support their efforts to serve beneficiaries during the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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