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The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All? How SORA Technology is using drones equipped with AI-powered cameras to target mosquito breeding sites and eradicate malaria at its source.

The World is Losing the Fight Against Malaria: Could Drones and AI Help Defeat the Disease Once and For All?

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#malaria #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #Africa #drones #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicHealth #SubSaharanAfrica

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding How the pioneering company Soluz Honduras is bringing solar products to Honduras' rural areas by tapping a diverse array of financing models.

Financing Off-Grid Solar: A Pioneering Provider in Honduras Shows the Impact of Diversified Funding

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@hummingbirdgreen.bsky.social #Honduras #solar #EnergyAccess #ImpactInvesting #OffGrid #funding #GlobalDevelopment

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders 60 Decibels' interviews with over 400 MSME loan applicants in Brazil show how inclusive lenders can better serve the needs of entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders

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@60decibels.bsky.social #Brazil #MSMEs #SmallBusiness #lending #ImpactInvesting #ImpactMeasurement #entrepreneurs #FinancialInclusion

Africa Needs Jobs — the Agri-Food Industry Can Provide Them: How the Sector Can Boost its Impact on Employment Across the Continent Sub-Saharan Africa must create 20 million jobs per year til 2050 to keep up with population growth: Could the agri-food sector provide them?

Africa Needs Jobs — the Agri-Food Industry Can Provide Them: How the Sector Can Boost its Impact on Employment Across the Continent

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#agriculture #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #employment #FoodSecurity #unemployment #GlobalDevelopment #jobs

NextBillion at 20: Reflecting on Growth, Change and Global Impact In celebration of its 20th anniversary, NextBillion is highlighting articles and conversations that have shaped emerging markets business.

NextBillion at 20: Reflecting on Growth, Change and Global Impact

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#GlobalEntrepreneurshipWeek #GEW2025 #SocialEnterprise
#SocialEntrepreneurship #EmergingMarkets #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment #SocialImpact

Public Good vs. Profitable Exits: Why Public Innovation Agencies Must Stop Copying Venture Capital Emre Eren Korkmaz explores the downsides of public institutions' embrace of the profit-centric, risk-averse mentality of venture capital.

Public Good vs. Profitable Exits: Why Public Innovation Agencies Must Stop Copying Venture Capital

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@ox.ac.uk #innovation #VentureCapital #VC #SocialInnovation #investing #SocialImpact #ImpactInvesting #PublicSector

Tackling Climate Disinformation Is on the COP30 Agenda A Declaration on Information Integrity was launched at COP30 where signatory countries committed to address climate disinformation.

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#COP30HealthDay #ClimateChange #ClimateDisinformation #disinformation #sustainability

#COP30 is underway, and several new announcements, including new reports, partnerships and funds have been released.

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#ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #MSMEs #socimp #COP30Brazil #ActionAgendaSolutions #FundOurFuture

BII and BlueOrchard Launch $250 Million Climate Fund for Insurers BII will anchor the BlueOrchard Climate Action Mobilisation Fund (BOCAMF), with both firms targeting investment from insurance companies.

News: @britishintinv.bsky.social and BlueOrchard Launch $250 Million Climate Fund for Insurers:

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#ImpactInvesting #DevelopmentFinance #insurance #SMEs #EmergingMarkets #SocialImpact #ClimateFinance

From Energy Access to Economic Empowerment: Workable Models for Financing a Just Transition in Emerging Markets Anthony Osijo at Bboxx explores ways to finance a just climate transition in emerging markets — while also eradicating energy poverty.

From Energy Access to Economic Empowerment: Workable Models for Financing a Just Transition in Emerging Markets

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#EnergyAccess #CleanCooking #JustTransition #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #EmergingMarkets #solar #SolarEnergy #Africa

Convincing Customers to Buy What’s Best for Them: How Lessons from Clean Cooking Can Increase the Adoption of ‘Merit Goods’ How the clean cooking sector’s experience selling cookstoves and fuels highlights strategies to boost consumer uptake of other "merit goods."

Convincing Customers to Buy What’s Best for Them: How Lessons from Clean Cooking Can Increase the Adoption of ‘Merit Goods’

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#CleanCooking #EnergyAccess #EmergingMarkets #marketing #SocialImpact #GlobalDevelopment #climate #ClimateAction

Turning Failure into Fuel: An Emerging Learning Platform Aims to Bring the Hidden Challenges in Humanitarian Energy to Light How the Humanitarian Energy Learning Platform aims to highlight — and learn from — failure in humanitarian energy access.

Turning Failure into Fuel: An Emerging Learning Platform Aims to Bring the Hidden Challenges in Humanitarian Energy to Light

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#energy #solar #EnergyAccess #humanitarian #refugees #GlobalDevelopment #failure #SolarEnergy #EmergingMarkets

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: Bhutan and Fiji’s Contrasting Paths to Digital Transformation Reveal the Pros and Cons of Government and Market-Driven Approaches A study involving Bhutan and Fiji reveals their contrasting digital adoption strategies, providing lessons for other small countries.

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: Bhutan and Fiji’s Contrasting Paths to Digital Transformation Reveal the Pros and Cons of Government and Market-Driven Approaches

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#DigitalFinance #FinancialInclusion #DigitalTransformation #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #Fiji #Bhutan #fintech

Time is a Social Innovator’s Most Precious Resource: Why Are So Many Funders Wasting It? Many funders are surprisingly wasteful with social innovators' time: Here's a better way for funders to handle grants, investments and RFPs.

Time is a Social Innovator’s Most Precious Resource: Why Are So Many Funders Wasting It?

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#SocialEnterprise #NGOs #nonprofits #funding #funders #GlobalDevelopment #ImpactInvesting #entrepreneurs #investors #SocialInnovation

To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow Analysts explore what a "degrowth" agenda might mean for global development efforts — and for countries in the Global North and South.

To Change the World, Change Your Economics: How Degrowth Can Shrink Overconsumption in the Global North While Allowing the Global South to Grow

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@mattorsagh.bsky.social #degrowth #overconsumption #GlobalSouth #climate #ClimateChange #environment #economics

The Emergence of InfraTech: How AI and Other Digital Technologies are Enabling Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in LMICs An estimated 1 billion people lack access to all-weather roads: Here's how "InfraTech" solutions are addressing this gap in LMICs.

The Emergence of InfraTech: How AI and Other Digital Technologies are Enabling Climate-Resilient Transportation Infrastructure in LMICs

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#infrastructure #ClimateResilience #ClimateChange #ClimateAdaptation #climate #EmergingMarkets

Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies Impact investor Acumen shares what it has learned from embedding listening and impact management into every stage of its investment process.

Are Impact Investors Really Listening?: Why Capturing Stakeholder Insights is Key to Impactful Investment Strategies

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@acumen.org #ImpactInvesting #investing #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #EmergingMarkets

Right Decision, Wrong Reasons: The Way Forward from the Attack on Global Aid Analysts explore market-based alternatives to the failing humanitarian aid model, and propose five principles to guide the transition.

Right Decision, Wrong Reasons: The Way Forward from the Attack on Global Aid

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#GlobalAid #HumanitarianAid #humanitarian #USAID #GlobalDevelopment #refugees #EmergingMarkets

Africa is Done Waiting: 10 Key Takeaways from Africa HealthTech Summit 2025 NextBillion was a media partner at the 2025 Africa HealthTech Summit in Rwanda: Here are 10 key takeaways and four interviews from the event.

Africa is Done Waiting: 10 Key Takeaways from Africa HealthTech Summit 2025

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#Africa #HealthTech #healthcare #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth

SACCOs, Social Collateral and Bitcoin Communities: A Filmmaker Documents New (and Old) Ways to Extend Financial Inclusion Past the Limits of Fintech A filmmaker shares stories from his recent documentary, which highlight the innovation and resilience in Africa’s informal financial systems.

SACCOs, Social Collateral and Bitcoin Communities: A Filmmaker Documents New (and Old) Ways to Extend Financial Inclusion Past the Limits of Fintech

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#fintech #FinancialInclusion #microfinance #bitcoin #credit #lending #EmergingMarkets #Africa #cryptocurrency

Consultants at a Crossroads in Global Development: New Research Reveals their Challenges — And Highlights Strategies for Navigating the Current Disruption A recent survey highlights how the dismantling of USAID has impacted independent global development consultants — and how they can respond.

Consultants at a Crossroads in Global Development: New Research Reveals their Challenges — And Highlights Strategies for Navigating the Current Disruption

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@wayanvota.bsky.social #consultants #GlobalDevelopment #USAID #research #InternationalDevelopment #consulting

How India’s Non-Bank Financial Companies are Closing the MSME Credit Gap — And What Other Emerging Markets Can Learn from Their Success Non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) are solving India's MSME credit gap: Their approach offers useful lessons for other emerging economies.

How India’s Non-Bank Financial Companies are Closing the MSME Credit Gap — And What Other Emerging Markets Can Learn from Their Success

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#India #EmergingMarkets #banking #FinancialInclusion #MSMEs #SmallBusiness #credit #finance

When AI Gets It Wrong: Lessons from a Women-Centered Design Experiment Highlight the Need for Inclusive GPTs CARE's attempt to build a women-centered design GPT for female entrepreneurs shows the need for more inclusive AI models.

When AI Gets It Wrong: Lessons from a Women-Centered Design Experiment Highlight the Need for Inclusive GPTs

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenderEquity #ChatGPT

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Beyond Shock, Money or Mandate: Why African Banks Aren’t Taking Bold Climate Action — And What it Will Take to Move Forward African banks have yet to truly engage in climate finance: Analysts share a framework for understanding the extent of their climate lending.

Beyond Shock, Money or Mandate: Why African Banks Aren’t Taking Bold Climate Action — And What it Will Take to Move Forward

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#ClimateChange #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #climate #Africa #banking #lending #GlobalDevelopment #finance

Moving Past the ‘Infrastructure of Hope’: Why Investors, Policymakers and Entrepreneurs Must Build a Modern E-Commerce Ecosystem in Southeast Asia Why the lack of a formal e-commerce ecosystem is the central challenge for economic inclusion in Southeast Asia today.

Moving Past the ‘Infrastructure of Hope’: Why Investors, Policymakers and Entrepreneurs Must Build a Modern E-Commerce Ecosystem in Southeast Asia

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#Ecommerce #SoutheastAsia #SmallBusiness #entrepreneurs

Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa How rethinking energy finance can help expand energy access to the remaining 10% of excluded communities — which are primarily in Africa.

Aligning Capital with Justice: How Innovative Finance Can Enable the Final Stretch Toward Energy Access in Africa

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#ImpactInvesting #Africa #EnergyAccess #solar #renewables

A New Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture: How Satellite Remote Sensing is Quietly Transforming the Sector How satellite remote sensing is enabling a data-driven revolution in Indian agriculture, and how the sector can foster wider adoption.

A New Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture: How Satellite Remote Sensing is Quietly Transforming the Sector

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#satellites #agriculture #farming #smallholders #India

The ABCs of Catalytic Sunsetting: How Foundations and Other Philanthropic Funders Can Exit Boldly — And Leave a Bigger Legacy How philanthropic funders can leverage “catalytic sunsetting," spending down their assets in a defined timeframe to catalyze systemic change.

The ABCs of Catalytic Sunsetting: How Foundations and Other Philanthropic Funders Can Exit Boldly — And Leave a Bigger Legacy

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@dalberggroup.bsky.social @kusisami.bsky.social #philanthropy #philanthropists #SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting

Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems How youth entrepreneurship projects in Africa can leverage institutions like schools and public agencies to reach young people at scale.

Scaling Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Developing Local Ecosystems

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@technoserve.bsky.social #entrepreneurship #Africa #GlobalDevelopment #NGOs #nonprofits #YouthEmployment