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Gates Foundation Alters Course in Pursuit of Breakthroughs: New Grand Challenges reflect that innovation and scale go hand in hand
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its Grand Challenges Annual Meeting last week and announced three new challenges ... with a twist. Going forward, applicants will be required to partner with manufacturers, biomedical companies or others with expertise in product development before Gates will fund a project.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing, scale
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The Private Sector or Government : Who should solve Africa’s jobs crisis?
With unemployment at such a huge scale in Africa, it can feel like everyone’s (and no-one’s) problem to deal with. Ashoka’s Future Forward initiative recently kicked off a series of online conversations aiming to clarify who is responsible for youth employment in Africa. Here’s what three experts had to say.
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- Education
