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The state of the off-grid appliance market
Clean Energy Ministerial’s Global LEAP, CLASP, and Dalberg developed this report to deepen understanding of the burgeoning off-grid appliance market and explore areas for future opportunity.
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Launch of Convergence, the world’s first blended finance platform
The global off-grid appliance market is critical for increasing access to electricity and services. Over two billion people worldwide lack access to reliable electricity. Renewable energy technologies, especially solar, are helping bridge this gap.
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The business case for digitally-enabled smallholder finance
This 16-page brief looks at where and how innovations in digital technology promise to enable financial service providers to serve smallholders at scale.
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Protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom
Tiger landscapes are major contributors to socio-economic development.
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Human-Centered Design: The Design Ecosystem
Dalberg Design offers a comprehensive framework for strengthening the design ecosystem, identifying key market failures and opportunities to align capacity building with market needs.
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Human-Centered Design: The Design Process
Human centered design provides a robust framework for integrating user needs throughout the program design and implementation process.
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The landscape for impact investing in West Africa
The Global Impact Investing Network, in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, published The Landscape for Impact Investing in West Africa, a state of the market analysis of the impact investing industry in the region.
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Mobilizing Banking For Indonesia’s Poor
In this article published in MIT Innovations journal, Michael Mori and Trevor Zimmer assess the demand for mobile financial services and branchless banking among poor Indonesians and suggests how businesses should design and market financial products to incentivize adoption
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Fishermen First: Protecting the People Behind What We Eat
In this post on The Huffington Post, Robert Fabricant and John B. Thomas discuss the violations of human rights inherent to the fishing industry today, and offer some promising ideas to create a more sustainable food system and improve the lives of fisherfolk.
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What if global development was funded by developing countries’ money ?
Increasing bank deposits and investing pension funds differently could reduce developing countries’ reliance on international donors.
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