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March 13, 2024
African smallholder farmers benefit from reduced crop losses and higher incomes from a novel pest alert service
The PRISE project shows that smallholder farmers in four African countries who received pest alerts created using earth observation data benefitted from reduced crop losses and higher incomes…..
March 13, 2024
Insights to Impact: A weekly briefing on creating sustainable and inclusive growth
This digest offers insights that can help business decision makers identify new opportunities for innovation, growth, and impact…..
March 13, 2024
How can cities mitigate the impacts of climate change?: green and gray infrastructure
What can cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) do to protect their inhabitants and economy from the effects of climate change? Some of the most effective tools include the construction of gray and green infrastructure, urban regulations and improving the local governance framework…..
March 13, 2024
Decoding Financial Inclusion Gaps Between Young Men and Women
To understand what gives rise to this gender gap and how it evolves over time, CGAP and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been independently analyzing Global Findex data to identify drivers, patterns, and trends. ….
March 13, 2024
PowerUP: Scaling Clean Cooking Through Carbon Markets
It is a clean-tech start-up based in Uganda. It uses carbon finance to deliver affordable, tech-enabled electric cookstoves to customers in low- and middle-income countries…..
March 13, 2024
A New Solution to Power Africa: Productive Use of Renewable Energy
Access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa has improved tremendously over the last decade, reaching 49.4% of the population in 2022, up from 33% in 2010. Yet, while electricity access has grown, electricity consumption has not…..
March 13, 2024
5G technology and smart agriculture to aid Indian farmers
Since October 2022, India has embarked on the fastest rollout of 5G mobile data in the world, with average download speeds nearing 100 megabits per second…..
March 13, 2024
10 million reasons for the private sector to invest in social enterprise
A first-in-kind research by the Schwab Foundation’s Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship finds that there are approximately 10 million social enterprises worldwide. ….
March 13, 2024
Small investments delivered at scale are transforming futures for the most vulnerable in Niger
Ms Amarou is taking part in a UN Capital Development Fund initiative under the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility, channels grants to local governments for small-scale investments in individuals, communities and projects that are transforming people’s ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change…..
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..