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Report: Solar Boosting Economic Prospects for Rural East Africans
New report from GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, shows an overwhelming majority (94%) of people living with off-grid solar home systems reporting improvements to their quality of life
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Frontier Finance’ Is Scaling up to Achieve United Nations Goals
New report on impact investment shows that big opportunities exist to make money and achieve global development targets.
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- Investing
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Press Release: UNDP Launches Standards to Guide Private Sector in Achieving SDGs
The UNDP Practice Standards for Private Equity provide practical guideposts that make it easier for the private sector to operationalize the SDGs and shorten the runway from interest in to adoption of good impact practice.
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- global development, SDGs
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UBS Invests $225M in KKR Global Impact
The UBS fund-raising, from its global private client base, nudges the global wealth management firm closer to a commitment to raise US$5 billion within five years to address the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: The Landscape and Challenges of Impact Investments in India
In India, impact investors are committed to solving development problems, given the sheer size of populations in need but there is also a strong financial motivation to invest in ideas that serve dual bottom-lines.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Viewpoint: Cloud Computing Could Be Key to Speeding up Africa’s Development
What’s especially useful about cloud computing is that companies or organisations don’t need to own computing infrastructure or data centres. Instead, they can rent access to storage and applications, among other things, from a cloud service provider. This allows them to get access to sophisticated capabilities on demand. And they don’t have to spend a great deal of money building and maintaining IT infrastructure on site.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, global development, SDGs
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Press Release: Initiative for Blended Finance Launches to Make Sustainable Development More Effective
University of Zurich unites with leading research, knowledge and practice partners to provide excellent, practice-driven research & education for a more powerful collaboration between public & philanthropic funders and private investors.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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The Planetary Potential of Banishing Kerosene Lighting – And How Entrepreneurship Can Help
Kerosene lamps are still used by hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to climate change by releasing not only CO2 but also black carbon, an especially potent greenhouse gas. What's more, they exact a grim human toll, from burns and fires to toxic smoke and poisoning hazards. Alicia Oberholzer and Fid Thompson at Solar Sister call for an end to kerosene lighting, and highlight how women's entrepreneurship can make it happen.
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- Energy, Social Enterprise