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Analysis: Spinning Green into Gold
ESG-focused fund inflows into Asia are growing, but investing is replete with risk given the region’s diversities and historical inequalities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, governance, impact investing, SDGs
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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
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- global development, SDGs
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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
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: UNCDF Releases Cutting-Edge Research on Financial Health
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in partnership with i3 Program, supported by MetLife Foundation, released its flagship publication, “Delivering Financial Health Globally”.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Improving the Outcomes-Readiness of Implementors – A Key Step Towards Scaling Results-Based Financing
With less than a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the development financing gap has widened. According to Gagandeep Nanda at Dalberg and Dhun Davar and Sietse Wouters at UBS Optimus Foundation, results-based financing can provide a solution. But though organizations have high interest in participating in results-based financing, many are not ready to take on funding that is tied to outcomes instead of inputs and activities. They share five characteristics of effective outcomes-ready implementing organizations, and five ways these groups can be set up for success.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Viewpoint: It’s Time To Bring Equity to the Fore in WASH Programming
If the push to reach everyone with available and sustainable WASH services by 2030 becomes a competition between implementers to find the lowest hanging fruit, and governments are graded only on aggregate achievements, inequality will only worsen.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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- global development, governance, SDGs
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Press Release: CDC Group Announces $50 Million Trade Finance Facility With Ecobank As Part of Its COVID-19 Response
This marks CDC’s first partnership with EBISA with the commitment aimed at providing systemic liquidity to underserved markets and crucial trade finance support to local banks and businesses across Africa.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UNCDF Launches Initiative to Address Challenges Faced by Smallholder Farmers in Asia, Africa
The challenge will help address challenges faced by smallholder farmers around productivity, climate change and supply chain, by also working alongside International Fund for Agricultural Development.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Global
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- SDGs, smallholder farmers