The Missing Ingredient in Impact Investment in Africa: A New Financing Model for Business Advisory Service Providers Tackles the ’Lack of Investable Pipeline’ Challenge Analysts explore how business advisory service providers (BASPs) can facilitate investment in African SMEs, and share a new BASP financing model.

The Missing Ingredient in Impact Investment in Africa: A New Financing Model for Business Advisory Service Providers Tackles the ’Lack of Investable Pipeline’ Challenge

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Farming Under Solar: How Agriphotovoltaics Can Transform Rural Livelihoods in India Analysts explore how agriphotovoltaics (Agri-PV) can enable solar energy generation on Indian farmland while also benefitting farmers.

Farming Under Solar: How Agriphotovoltaics Can Transform Rural Livelihoods in India

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#India #agriculture #solar #SolarEnergy #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #GlobalDevelopment #farming

The Hidden Filters: How to Fix the Biases that Skew Investment Pipelines Away from Women Founders Practical recommendations on how investors can boost the inclusion of women founders at each stage of the investing process.

The Hidden Filters: How to Fix the Biases that Skew Investment Pipelines Away from Women Founders

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#investing #ImpactInvesting #GenderLens #gender #WomenEntrepreneurs

Three Questions for Five African Businesses: Insights from Sankalp Africa Summit's 'Enterprise Showcase' Interviews with five African businesses reveal innovative approaches and key issues that are emerging in the region's vibrant SME ecosystem.

Three Questions for Five African Businesses: Insights from Sankalp Africa Summit’s ‘Enterprise Showcase’

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#Africa #AfricanBusiness #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship

Accelerating Climate-Health: How the Sector Can Become Africa’s Next Strategic Investment Frontier Analysts explore why the growing, interrelated challenges of climate change and healthcare present a compelling investment case in Africa.

Accelerating Climate-Health: How the Sector Can Become Africa’s Next Strategic Investment Frontier

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@wdavidsoninst.bsky.social #climate #ClimateChange #health #healthcare #GlobalHealth #GlobalDevelopment #investing #ClimateHealth #ImpactInvesting #Africa

When Uncertainty Becomes Structural: Entrepreneurship Support Organisations as Ecosystem Infrastructure in a New Fiscal Reality How global development funding cuts have changed the role entrepreneurship support organisations play in sustaining the broader ecosystem.

When Uncertainty Becomes Structural: Entrepreneurship Support Organisations as Ecosystem Infrastructure in a New Fiscal Reality

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#entrepreneurship #GlobalDevelopment #entrepreneurs

The Myths and Realities of Inclusive Insurance: Lessons from the Field Why inclusive insurance is a fundamentally different business model than traditional insurance — and how insurers can maximize its impact.

The Myths and Realities of Inclusive Insurance: Lessons from the Field

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#FinancialInclusion #insurance #finance #EmergingMarkets

Designing Finance for the Realities of Youth: Applications are Open for the Newly Renamed Luxembourg Award for Inclusive Finance How the financial services industry in emerging markets can unlock youth-inclusive finance to meet the shifting needs of young customers.

Designing Finance for the Realities of Youth: Applications are Open for the Newly Renamed Luxembourg Award for Inclusive Finance

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The Trade-offs in African Energy Access are Real: Why Electrification Efforts Must Prioritise Industrial Use over Household Connections An analyst pushes back on the argument that Africa can simultaneously pursue both household and industrial energy access.

The Trade-offs in African Energy Access are Real: Why Electrification Efforts Must Prioritise Industrial Use over Household Connections

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#EnergyAccess #solar #RenewableEnergy #Africa #GlobalDevelopment #electrification #SDG7

The Hidden Role of ‘E-Boiling’ in Clean Cooking: How Nairobi’s Informal Settlements are Quietly Powering an Electric Transition How the growing adoption of e-boiling in Africa's informal settlements offers an entry point for boosting electricity usage and clean cooking.

The Hidden Role of ‘E-Boiling’ in Clean Cooking: How Nairobi’s Informal Settlements are Quietly Powering an Electric Transition

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#CleanCooking #Africa #Kenya #research #EnergyAccess #GlobalDevelopment #UrbanDevelopment

What Drives Corporate Philanthropy in Asia: Exploring the Region’s Unique Approach to Giving Analysts explore the factors that are driving the growth in Asian corporate philanthropy — and discuss three common approaches.

What Drives Corporate Philanthropy in Asia: Exploring the Region’s Unique Approach to Giving

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@bridgespangroup.bsky.social #Asia #CSR #Corporations #Philanthropy #GlobalDevelopment

Addressing the Communications Breakdown in Global Development: How AI-Enabled Assessment Tools Can Reach Excluded Communities How AI can facilitate impact evaluations and data collection in the multilingual and low-connectivity contexts common in excluded communities.

Addressing the Communications Breakdown in Global Development: How AI-Enabled Assessment Tools Can Reach Excluded Communities

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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GlobalDevelopment #data #ImpactMeasurement #LanguageAccess

Impact Leadership Under Pressure: Four Lessons from Resilient Organizations Drawing on insights gathered during recent global crises, these lessons can help impact leaders and their organizations navigate volatility.

Impact Leadership Under Pressure: Four Lessons from Resilient Organizations

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#SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurship #SocialImpact #NGOs #nonprofits #leadership #LeadershipLessons

Creating a Local Means of Exchange for African Entrepreneurs: How a Blockchain-Based Community Currency Gained Traction in Tanzania How blockchain can enable communities to create and manage their own local cryptocurrencies, to support economic growth and entrepreneurship.

Creating a Local Means of Exchange for African Entrepreneurs: How a Blockchain-Based Community Currency Gained Traction in Tanzania

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The False Choice in African Energy Access: Why the Sector Must Balance the Needs of Households and Businesses — And How it Can Electrify Both How the energy access sector can prioritize electricity solutions for both households and businesses to finally end energy poverty in Africa.

The False Choice in African Energy Access: Why the Sector Must Balance the Needs of Households and Businesses — And How it Can Electrify Both

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It does, Mike, and I appreciate the detailed explanation. It's interesting to see how people are using this tech, even if I have grave concerns about it. (I'm a big fan of your writing and analysis, by the way - thanks for all you're doing.)

Thanks for this glimpse behind the scenes - it's interesting to see.

This may be the complaint of a human editor whose career is becoming obsolete, but... isn't it your editor's job to provide that sort of feedback? Are you sure you're "saving them time" and not actually "making them expendable"?

It sounds like you're using AI more responsibly than some of the writers we work with. But if you still use a human editor, won't let AI do the writing for you, and train it to sound exactly like you, what's the value add that justifies the cost of this tech? Why not simply not use AI for this task?

As a human editor, I hope you do follow up on @aroundagain.bsky.social's question. I wonder if your editors share your "sense" that AI improves your articles.

For my part, I'm tired of the "AI voice," generic, LinkedIn-level analysis and "close enough" citations that define AI-enhanced writing.

Leveraging the Currency of Trust: How Social Commerce Data Can Inform Risk Management and Bring Formal Finance to Women-Led MSMEs How data from women entrepreneurs' social commerce activity can be used to boost their access to formal finance.

Leveraging the Currency of Trust: How Social Commerce Data Can Inform Risk Management and Bring Formal Finance to Women-Led MSMEs

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@microsave.bsky.social #FinancialInclusion #Indonesia

Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook How African development organizations can create a more holistic, systems-based approach to managing their communications efforts.

Storytelling for Velocity, Not Visibility: Why African Development Organizations Need a New Communications Playbook

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#GlobalDevelopment #Africa #communications #PublicRelations #consulting #SubSaharanAfrica

Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond Analysts at Acumen and Open Capital explore the challenges that are holding the productive use of renewable energy sector back.

Productive Use Has Challenges: What’s Holding the Sector Back — And How Companies and Investors Should Respond

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@acumen.org #solar #energy #EnergyAccess #agriculture

Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future Analysts explore a systemic venture-building model that can support African entrepreneurs working in agriculture and other sectors.

Rethinking What it Means to Start a Business: Why Systemic Venture Building Matters for Africa’s Food Future

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#Africa #FoodSecurity #agriculture #business #SystemChange #GlobalDevelopment

Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches How the EU and India’s different routes toward interoperability in electric vehicles and batteries can inform Africa's e-mobility transition.

Interoperability is the Answer to Scaling Up E-mobility in Africa: What the Continent Can Learn from the EU and India’s Divergent Approaches

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#ElectricMobility #EMobility #ElectricVehicles #EVs #Africa #India #SustainableMobility

Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively Five lessons that can enable impact-focused organizations to collaborate effectively and scale their solutions through consortiums.

Scaling Through Consortiums: Five Lessons We’ve Learned About Growing Impact Collectively

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#NGOs #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #nonprofits

NextBillion's Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest Congratulations to the winners of NextBillion’s 2025 “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest, and best wishes for the new year!

NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Announcing the Winners of Our Annual Contest

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Announcing NextBillion's Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4 It's time for NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of the Year contest: Read these 12 key articles from 2025, and vote for your favorites.

Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2025: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 4

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Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital New research shows how first-time SME investors can move from concept to first investments — and how catalytic capital can support them.

Backing First-Time SME Finance Vehicles in Emerging Markets: 10 Years of Data Reveals Successful Pathways — And the Role of Catalytic Capital

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African Agriculture at a Climate Crossroads: Business Risks and Opportunities as the Continent Navigates the Growing Crisis Why African agriculture faces a choice: remain trapped in a cycle of ongoing emergency responses — or invest in long-term climate resilience.

African Agriculture at a Climate Crossroads: Business Risks and Opportunities as the Continent Navigates the Growing Crisis

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#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Africa #ClimateAction #SubSaharanAfrica #GlobalDevelopment #sustainability #agriculture #farming

Context Instead of Carbon: Why Climate Finance in Africa Must Shift its Focus from Mitigation to Adaptation Why framing climate action as either mitigation or adaptation prevents funding from reaching Africa’s most climate-smart solutions.

Context Instead of Carbon: Why Climate Finance in Africa Must Shift its Focus from Mitigation to Adaptation

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#Africa #carbon #CarbonCredits #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateMitigation #ClimateAction #agriculture #ImpactInvesting #GlobalDevelopment