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Press Release: World Bank Supports Ghana to Expand, and Enhance Social Safety Nets, Including for 3.6 Million School Children
As part of Ghana’s program with the IMF, the Government of Ghana has made commitments to safeguard and increase social spending to protect the poor and vulnerable during this time of fiscal distress.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Inter-American Development Bank Approves $400 Million Loan to Develop Chile’s Green Hydrogen Industry
Green hydrogen is made using renewable energy to split water by electrolysis, without producing greenhouse gases.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Nigeria’s BUA Gets $500 Million Funding to Develop New Cement Lines
The funding would help the company part-finance and develop two new, energy-efficient cement production lines at its plant in Sokoto state.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure, renewable energy, solar, waste
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Press Release: Symbiotics Investments Provides a US $10 Million Gender-Focused Bond to Khan Bank in Mongolia
This is the first bond in Mongolia with the explicit purpose of supporting the SDGs through a gender lens.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Malaysian Insurtech Startup PolicyStreet Bags US $15.4 Million in Series B Funding Led by Khazanah
The investment in PolicyStreet aims to improve insurance penetration within unserved and underserved communities in Malaysia.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Helium Health Gets $30 Million, Backed by AXA IM Alts and 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki
Helium Health provides software-as-a-service tools, financing and insights for healthcare providers and public health organizations.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Financial Tools Needed to Pay $200 Billion Nature Restoration in Southeast Asia
Well-structured capital market instruments such as sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) can help scale up investments in nature restoration projects.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: World Bank Approves $265 Million to Scale up Agriculture Commercialization and Improve Food Resilience in Malawi
The new financing is part of phase 3 of the regional Food Systems Resilience Program for Eastern and Southern Africa, or FSRP.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- agtech, food security, scale
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