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Pandemic Makes Tackling Global Woes More Critical Than Ever – Bill Gates
The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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Press Release: Bamboo and Palladium Agree on a Long-Term Strategic Partnership To Mobilize USD $1 Billion in Impact Capital by 2023
Bamboo and Palladium have joined forces to achieve their shared objective of mobilizing private sector investment at scale to significantly contribute toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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- Environment, Investing
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Analysis: Funds Are Recognising Their Biases Against Women
Despite its massive growth, the gender lens investing market has not yet tapped its potential.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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How Nigeria Is Using the Pandemic To Build a Sustainable Energy Future
Explore how countries and regions are using the window of opportunity that has opened through the COVID-19 pandemic to recover better with sustainable energy.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- clean cooking, energy access, SDGs
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Bill Gates: These Are the 2 Questions I Use To Tackle Every Big Problem From Microsoft To COVID-19
If you want to tackle problems the same way as Bill Gates, you need to start with two simple questions: “Who has dealt with this problem well? And what can we learn from them?”
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- philanthropy, SDGs
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The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2020
Any crisis calls for a variety of short-term responses to the emergency at hand. But longer-term objectives must be safeguarded.
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- Coronavirus
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- global development, innovation, SDGs
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Press Release: Bboxx Makes Solar Energy Accessible at Scale in Africa With the Launch of the bPower20 Product
Bboxx, a next generation utility that manufactures, distributes and finances decentralised solar powered systems in developing countries, has launched the bPower20 product, to make solar energy more accessible at scale.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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SME Investing With a Gender Lens: The Key To COVID-19 Recovery in Emerging Markets
It can be hard to think about recovery while much of the world remains in the eye of the COVID-19 storm. But according to Vanessa Erogbogbo at the International Trade Centre and Ayesha Khanna at CARE Enterprises Inc., we must begin to envision a world on the other side of the pandemic – and that process must involve investment in small businesses that create positive economic impact for women.
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- Coronavirus, Investing