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Viewpoint: Social Entrepreneurship Leads the Charge to Reinvent Capitalism
These Ventures Present Ways to Harness the Power of the Marketplace to Achieve What Current Capitalism Struggles to Do.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Global
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Shell Foundation’s EEGF Receives $13 Million Injection to Accelerate Access to Clean Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund (EEGF) in Africa has received a US$13 million injection from FinDev Canada.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Next Financial Inclusion Revolution: The Transformative Potential of Scaling Small Group Savings in the World’s Poorest Communities
Despite $52 billion invested in financial inclusion in 2019 alone, nearly 2 billion people – many of them among the world’s poorest – still lack access to formal finance. As Jeffrey Ashe at Grassroots Finance Action points out, these communities often turn to informal savings and credit groups to meet their financial needs – but there are many who are too poor and marginalized to be invited to be part of these groups. He explores a proposal that aims to expand access to informal savings groups to reach these financially excluded individuals around the world.
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- Finance
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Analysis: COVID Pushed 31 Million People Into Extreme Poverty
In an annual report that looks at the world’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, the Gates Foundation says that 31 million additional people have been pushed into extreme poverty.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Global
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- coronavirus, extreme poverty, healthcare, LMICs, pandemics, poverty, SDGs, technology, vaccines
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Pandemic Threatens Asia-Pacific’s Progress on Global Development Goals, Says Asia Development Bank
"As the socioeconomic impacts of responses to the virus continue to unfold, people already struggling to make ends meet are at risk of tipping over into a life of poverty," the Manila-based lender said.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: A Fiscal Tightrope: Comparing the COVID-19 Recovery of Advanced and Emerging Economies
The effects of COVID-19 are still expect to cause ongoing problems such as poverty and malnutrition, which will make the Sustainable Development Goals unattainable.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Real Cost of Net Zero Carbon Could Be Mass Hunger
Governments and companies are happy to make net zero carbon pledges. Their real cost could be ruinous for the poor.
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- Environment
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- Global
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‘Lost Generation’ Fears as COVID Locks Out India’s Poor Students
Even before the pandemic, more than six million Indian girls and boys were already not going to school, according to UNICEF.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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- Asia Pacific
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