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SEARCA Journal Paper Pushes for Stronger ASEAN Food Resilience Amid Polycrisis
Titled “ASEAN Food Security in an Era of Polycrisis: From Production-Centered Policy to Regional Resilience,” the paper is authored by Dr. Paul Teng of the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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New Carbon Gap Toolkit Evaluates Countries’ Carbon Removal Potential
Carbon Gap has launched a free, open-access toolkit that enables users to assess how much carbon dioxide removal (CDR) a country could realistically deliver.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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Report: AI Models Cost More When You Don’t Use English
Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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ADB Accelerates Nature Finance at COP17 with New Bond, Incubator, and Tracking Report
The initiatives, announced at the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Yerevan, seek to expand private investment in protecting ecosystems that support billions of lives.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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It’s Not You, It’s the Work: Why Social Entrepreneurs Often Face Burnout, and What the Ecosystem Can Do About It
As their own bosses, social entrepreneurs have the freedom to decide when to switch off and take some time away from work. But as Andreana Drencheva at King’s College London and Wee Chan Au at Newcastle University argue, they often feel unable to use that freedom — a situation that frequently leads to burnout. And advice on how to avoid burnout typically fails to take their unique pressures and responsibilities into account. They share findings from their recent study of 40 social entrepreneurs in Malaysia, describing the four conditions that drive this inability to switch off, and exploring how funders, clients and other ecosystem players can provide more support.
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- Social Enterprise
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- research
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Research: Policy Roadmaps Point the Way to Impact Economy Development in Peru, Central America, and Zambia
The findings provide policymakers opportunities to mobilise private capital towards national priorities – supporting inclusive growth, job creation, climate resilience and micro, small, and medium enterprises.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Harder Choices Ahead: What the Financial Inclusion Compass 2026 Tells us About the Sector’s Shifting Challenges
What is the biggest story in financial inclusion in 2026? Sam Mendelson at European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) shares insights from e-MFP's “Financial Inclusion Compass 2026,” a survey of sector trends, risks and priorities that's been published since 2018. As he explains, the survey responses show a sector that is raising its ambitions for what financial inclusion has to achieve, at the same time as the environment in which it operates is becoming more difficult. He explores some key findings, as financial inclusion moves away from an era characterized by access, growth and donor-supported expansion, and towards one increasingly shaped by resilience, adaptation, commercial pressure, and harder choices about who gets served, how and at what cost.
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- Finance
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Report: High Spectrum Costs Squeeze African Telecom Investment and Digital Growth
A new report by the GSMA, Spectrum Policy in Africa: Enabling Investment and Empowering Consumers Through Effective Spectrum Pricing, identifies the high cost of accessing radio spectrum—the invisible radio frequencies that carry mobile calls and internet data—as a central bottleneck. African mobile operators pay significantly more for relatively less spectrum, leaving them with limited capacity to expand or improve service quality.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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