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Press release: The Renewable Power of the Mine
As renewable power integration in the mining sector gathers pace, a Columbia University study identifies financing and conflicting interests among different stakeholders as the remaining biggest roadblocks to wide-spread uptake.
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- Energy
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CEOs’ massive shift in mindset: Greater social impacts are achieved through business, not politics
YPO revealed its 2019 Global Leadership Survey findings on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. According to the survey, business leaders say they are much more inclined to make an impact through their business than by being involved in politics.
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- public policy
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Central Bank of Nigeria unveils strategy to achieve 80% financial inclusion
The CBN stated that “the major goal of this revised strategy is to reduce the proportion of adult Nigerians that are financially excluded to 20 percent in year 2020 from it baseline figure of 46.3 percent in 2010.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mexico launches major initiative to boost financial sector
"The main objectives of these actions are to increase the coverage of the financial sector and promote liquidity in the stock market, introduce a more efficient payment system for the population, and overall, facilitate and promote savings mobilization, channeling them into productive investments," read a press release from the finance ministry.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Enabling the Business of Recycling: How Innovative Public-Private Partnerships Help to Build Sustainable Cities
Conversations around environmental sustainability often reduce the issue to a false dichotomy: better policies vs. better business practices. But in fact, leveraging both the government and business sectors can provide unique benefits, say Jorge Noguera at Mastercard and Caleb Shreve at Global Fairness Initiative. They explore the impact of an innovative public-private partnership linking city governments in Peru with a network of waste-pickers to deliver recycling services to households and businesses.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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The Vanishing American Dream: The Long Road to Financial Stability
The American economy is growing. Unemployment is down, incomes are inching up and the days of the Great Recession are but a distant memory... except for one thing: A shocking 57 percent of the country—approximately 138 million Americans—are struggling to make ends meet. Jennifer Tescher of the Center for Financial Services Innovation and Tilman Ehrbeck of Omidyar Network say the time to address this crisis is now. They share some promising innovations – and a new research tool – that could help.
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- Finance
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Ready for a Fight: Behind a Company’s Long Record of Activist Green Giving
With marketing trends driving more brands to embrace political causes, Patagonia’s past couple of years could be mistaken for a masterful PR campaign. But the company’s history shows its activism is no stunt.
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- Environment
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The Donor-Funded Dilemma: What’s Stopping Emerging Countries from Developing Private Markets for Contraceptives?
In sub-Saharan Africa, the private sector provides family planning solutions to almost 40 percent of women. But that isn’t the case in Malawi, a country that’s long been dominated by donor-funded commodities. Erika Beidelman and Andrea Bare at the William Davidson Institute explore Malawi's family planning landscape, highlighting five factors that may be limiting the private sector’s involvement – issues that may apply to other countries with histories of donor-funded healthcare.
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- Health Care