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Press Release: 60 Decibels Study Finds Loans to Savings Groups Contribute to Stronger Financial Resilience in Africa
Through VisionFund’s Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation (FAST) programme, the study has demonstrated that access to capital combined with financial education can help businesses grow.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Drives AI to Boost Agriculture, Enrich Cultural Data in India
Google unveiled its new Agricultural Monitoring & Event Detection API, offering field‑level crop insights updated fortnightly, and launched the Amplify Initiative to build hyperlocal datasets across Indic languages.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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World Bank Grants South Africa a $1.5 Billion Loan for Infrastructure Upgrade and Green Energy Transition
Deteriorating rail systems, jammed ports and frequent blackouts have hindered vital industries like mining and auto manufacturing in South Africa, contributing to slow economic growth over the last decade in Africa’s most developed economy.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US Wealthtech Waltz Preps Latin America Launch With New $25 Million Credit Line
The credit line has been provided by affiliates of Setpoint Capital, with Waltz now leveraging $50 million in combined equity and debt funding.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Viewpoint: Afreximbank Downgrade Raises Questions About Bank’s Strategy
"The Cairo-based institution, which has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade, often seems determined not to be bogged down by orthodox multilateral development bank practices."
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Blue Earth Commits $30 Million to Agricultural Commodities Firm
Valency International operates large-scale commodity processing facilities across four countries in Africa and Asia.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: Solving the Last-Mile Puzzle: How Non-Banking Financial Companies are Democratising EV Ownership in India’s Tier II and III Cities
"The real leap in electric mobility won’t happen on highways—it will begin in the heart of India, where NBFCs are helping turn aspirations into access, and vehicles into ventures."
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- Energy, Finance, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: China Is Now the Biggest Debt Collector in the Developing World, Report Says
Skeptics have argued for years that China's lending to the developing world is aimed at laying a debt trap for borrowing governments. But Deborah Brautigam, director of the China-Africa Research Initiative at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, says it's useful to view China's lending as driven more by commercial logic than overt political leverage.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Global
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