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Analysis: How AI Can Help Developing Countries Rebuild After the Pandemic
Technology has been a lifeline to developing countries during the COVID-19 crisis, helping to maintain essential services and keep companies in business. It has also offered a glimpse of a brighter future, one in which gains in income and employment are driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Press Release: X4Impact, a Market Intelligence Platform for Social Innovation, Announced U.S. Launch During the 2020 Un General Assembly
As we enter a post-COVID-19 recovery phase, the free-access platform aims to spark the creation and funding of technologies to address our most urgent social issues mapped to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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Viewpoint: India Can Soon Be the Tech Garage of the World
Startups have flagged their grievances regarding angel tax provision, which they considered was not friendly to them.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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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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- Entrepreneurship, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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India’s Solar Tariffs To Decline by up To 10 Percent Over Next Decade
It added that this in turn would result in stronger competitiveness against incumbent fossil fuel alternatives in the country
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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The Network Effect: How Enterprise Support Organizations are Coming Together to Help Youth-Led Businesses Survive COVID-19
The economic fallout of COVID-19 has taken a devastating toll on micro, small and medium enterprises, and youth-led businesses are particularly vulnerable. But as Anita Tiessen at Youth Business International explains, the crisis also presents opportunities for these enterprises. She discusses some key ways to help young entrepreneurs emerge stronger from the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship
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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
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- South Asia
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Businesses Behaving Badly: The Troubling Parallels Between Microfinance and Facebook
Chuck Waterfield left microfinance five years ago, after working in the sector for three decades. He stopped using Facebook three years ago, after using the platform for about 10 years. As he explains, he left them both for a similar reason: Their business models have grown increasingly problematic over time – and without external intervention, things are likely to get worse.
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- Finance, Technology
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