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Analysis: Nations Priced Out of Big AI Are Building With Frugal Models
Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: The Lab Selects Eight New Climate Finance Solutions Expected to Unlock USD $600 Million for Emerging Markets
The selected initiatives will undergo seven months of incubation and stress testing, receiving technical support and guidance from experts within the Lab’s extensive network of public and private investors. After that, they will be eligible to receive grant funding of up to USD 250,000 to move from design to implementation.
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- Agriculture
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Viewpoint: The Economy That Remembers: Institutional Amnesia and the Regenerative Correction
Modern capitalism has perfected a hidden discipline: the systematic design of economic systems that forget. What we call “externalities” are not costs that disappear — they are consequences displaced. The regenerative economy, at its core, is not simply greener or more inclusive. It is an effort to build systems that remember.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Analysis: Innovation Under Constraint in the Global South
For the impact economy, the central challenge is not replication but responsibility. If scale reshapes power, then impact-aligned capital must take responsibility for how that power is structured and where value ultimately accrues.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Proparco Grants Wema Bank a First €5 Million Guarantee to Finance Impact-Driven MSMEs in Nigeria
Proparco is granting a NGN 9 billion ARIZ portfolio guarantee (equivalent to €5 million) to Wema Bank in Nigeria. This marks the first collaboration between the two institutions.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The Broken Narrative About Nonprofit Sustainability at Scale
The dominant narratives about sustainable financing at scale can leave nonprofits questioning many of their foundational decisions.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation, WASH
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- Global
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Viewpoint: Measuring More and Learning Less
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Green Digital Action Hub to Accelerate Innovation for a Sustainable Future: New Global Nerve Centre Will Harness Digital Technology for Climate Action and Sustainable Development for All
The GDA Hub will provide tools, expertise, and data to help nations scale up green technologies, reduce environmental footprint of technology and ensure access to sustainable digital solutions for all.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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