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With AI learning and recycled soap, social businesses step in as coronavirus spreads
With schools and offices shut across Asia, social enterprises are rushing to tackle problems ranging from a shortage of face masks to distance learning.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Women Entrepreneurs in India May Help Create up to 170 Million Jobs by 2030
Unlocking entrepreneurship among women in India is a complex effort, but provides an unprecedented opportunity to change the economic and social trajectory of the country and its women for generations. This will drive tremendous job creation and also deliver transformational social and personal outcomes for women, said Chawla.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- employment
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Facebook Backs Indian Education Startup Unacademy
Unacademy, one of India’s fastest growing education startups, has just received the backing of a major technology giant: Facebook.
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- Education, Technology
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- South Asia
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- startups, venture capital
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KKR raises $1.3 bn for global impact investing fund
Private equity firm KKR & Co. Inc has raised $1.3 billion for a global impact fund, as it joins peers such as Blackstone and TPG in seeking to invest in companies that strive to solve environmental or social problems.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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What Is Preventing the Adoption of Renewable Energy in Rural India, and How to Fix It?
In the hinterland, poor power quality continues to affect service delivery organisations in the health, education, and livelihood sectors.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Agritech Startup Clover Raises $5.5 MN From Omnivore, Accel
Clover is an agritech platform that works with farmers across India and markets greenhouse-grown produce through business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C) channels.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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- agtech, startups, venture capital
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New Technologies Have Historically Led to Increased Inequality—Not Anymore
New developments can be an amazing social equaliser: 3D printing is democratising manufacturing, while mobile banking provides easy access to banking services and increases the earning power of small businesses. But access to technology often dictates what opportunities are available.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: India Can’t Have True Reform in Agriculture If We Keep Hitching It to Rural Development
By glossing agriculture as aspirational, one only reinforces the view that agriculture is some sort of residue, a stalled structural transformation, a subsistence industry, or a buffer stock for food grains. But agricultural commodity markets have always been at the very heart of development.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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