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Press release: Pakistan’s poorest communities to benefit from innovative US$600k deal for off-grid solar roll out
EcoEnergy, a leading affordable solar energy provider in Pakistan, has secured a US$600,000 investment to help it provide off-grid solar energy to 10,000 of the poorest rural households in Pakistan.
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- Press release
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- South Asia
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What Happens When You Invest In Entrepreneurship At The Margins
There are countless ways that distressed communities in the US differ from the remote areas where my organization, Root Capital, operates. But they have at least this in common: They have an acute need for investment. And we need more gatekeepers of capital to take up that challenge.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Accenture, Grameen Foundation collaborate to leverage AI, AR to help low-income women
New applications leverage the power of artificial intelligence and augmented reality to improve financial capacity and decision-making for and by the poor.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Can The World’s Underbanked Leapfrog On To A New Blockchain Financial System?
Moeda is a new startup that allows investors to use the blockchain to support cooperatives in rural Brazil–in a different way than is possible in the current system.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Everyone’s a winner? How ‘impact investing’ can make money – and do good
Previously the domain of corporations and the wealthy, impact investing is now available to anyone with small amounts of cash to spare - with investments in community cinemas, affordable housing or low cost gyms - from as little as $70.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IFMR group looks to appoint investment banks for share sale
IFMR group, which provides financial services to lower income population and the companies serving this segment, plans to go public and is in talks to hire investment banks for the same, two people aware of the development said.
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- South Asia
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This Social Entrepreneur is Creating Employment in Underserved Areas
Started in 2014, the non-profit body focuses on youth and women from ages 18-25 in the most rural parts of the world. The initiative builds conscious enterprises and undertakes income enhancement initiatives for indigenous and underprivileged communities by engaging urban leaders and start-ups.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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MTN and Vanu partner to bring connectivity to rural Rwandans
MTN and Vanu have announced the integration of the two networks with an aim to extend MTN’s Network in rural areas which are currently unconnected in Rwanda.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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