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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
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."
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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
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."
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November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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
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.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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
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.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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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
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.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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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
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.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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
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.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Right Decision, Wrong Reasons: The Way Forward from the Attack on Global Aid

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#GlobalAid #HumanitarianAid #humanitarian #USAID #GlobalDevelopment #refugees #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.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Africa is Done Waiting: 10 Key Takeaways from Africa HealthTech Summit 2025

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#Africa #HealthTech #healthcare #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth
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.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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
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.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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
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.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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
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.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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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
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.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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

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#ClimateChange #ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #climate #Africa #banking #lending #GlobalDevelopment #finance
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.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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
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.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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
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.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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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
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.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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
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.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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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
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.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Building Sustainable Sanitation Markets in Africa: Lessons from Uganda and Malawi

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#sanitation #Africa #EmergingMarkets #WASH #Uganda #Malawi #sustainable #UrbanDevelopment
Building Sustainable Sanitation Markets in Africa: Lessons from Uganda and Malawi
Research from Uganda and Malawi sheds light on the challenges, opportunities and business models that are emerging in this critical sector.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A Field-Based Perspective on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agriculture Crisis: Exploring the Four Critical Dimensions that are Driving Food Insecurity

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#agriculture #Africa #SubSaharanAfrica #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #farming #agtech #ClimateChange
A Field-Based Perspective on Sub-Saharan Africa’s Agriculture Crisis: Exploring the Four Critical Dimensions that are Driving Food Insecurity
How agriculture businesses, funders and policymakers can address the multifaceted factors that contribute to food insecurity in Africa.
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September 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The Circular Solar Opportunity in Africa: How Refurbishing Solar Systems Can Reduce E-Waste and Expand Energy Access

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#solar #SolarPower #SolarEnergy #Africa #Ethiopia #EWaste #CircularEconomy #RenewableEnergy #renewables #OffGrid
The Circular Solar Opportunity in Africa: How Refurbishing Solar Systems Can Reduce E-Waste and Expand Energy Access
Inter Ethiopia Solutions explores its circular economy approach to refurbishing solar home systems and repurposing lithium-ion batteries.
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August 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa

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#Africa #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #ClimateSolutions #GenderEquity #entrepreneurship
Women, Wealth and Climate Resilience: The Transformative Power of Asset Creation in Africa
How asset creation can advance both climate resilience and the quality of life for women and girls in Africa.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change

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@wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #entrepreneurship #data #SocialEnterprise #ImpactInvesting #SocialImpact
Building Smarter Data Practices in Entrepreneurship Support Ecosystems: How Entrepreneurs, Investors and Other Stakeholders Can Drive Systemic Change
How entrepreneurship support ecosystems can improve their monitoring, evaluation and learning and data-sharing practices.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Designing Digital Health Tools for the Last Mile: Lessons for Maximizing Connectivity, Usability and Trust

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#DigitalHealth #GlobalHealth #healthcare #DigitalAccess #EmergingMarkets #India #Africa #PublicHealth
Designing Digital Health Tools for the Last Mile: Lessons for Maximizing Connectivity, Usability and Trust
Four lessons from digital health deployments in emerging markets show why some tools succeed in the last mile, while others stall.
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August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM