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Female entrepreneurs in Ghana sitting around in a circle for networking
Gender equality

Connecting women entrepreneurs over WhatsApp for networking and business growth in Ghana

Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Edward Asiedu, Francesca Truffa, Ashley Wong
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Two women riding a motor bike in Pakistan.
Gender equality

The challenges and prospects for increasing women’s mobility in Pakistan

Sarah Thompson
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Female politicians in India
Gender equality

Are women legislators better for forest conservation?

Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay, Naveen Hari, Bipasha Maity, Pranabes Probeshika Dutta
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Two women working with fish in Bangladesh.
Gender equality

Impact of employment on wellbeing: A gendered analysis from Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camps

Gregory Lane, Erin Kelley
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Five lessons for simplifying tax systems in Commonwealth countries

Twivwe Siwale
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Fostering Transformational Change: Insights from a new learning methodology

Vivian Bronsoler Nurko
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Escaping the fragility trap
Financing and de-risking mechanisms to enable solar mini grid investments in fragile contexts

Joevas Asare, Sarah Logan

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Escaping the fragility trap
Strategies for e-waste management in fragile countries

Hélène Donnat

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Electronic wastes including solar panels lying on the ground.
Driving Transformational Change in Uganda: Fostering the Economic Growth Forum

Rosina De Mucio, Janine Aguilera Mesa, Siddarth Sriram

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Lots of cars in Uganda
Driving Transformational Change in Ghana: Supporting the Ghana Commodity Exchange

Rosina De Mucio, Siddarth Sriram

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Transformational change taking place in agricultural markets as market stall holders interact in Accra, Ghana
Driving Transformational Change in Mozambique: Conflict management and social integration in Cabo Delgado

Janine Aguilera Mesa, Siddarth Sriram

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People walking on a path in Mozambique.
Escaping the fragility trap
Transforming livelihoods through scaling up the productive use of energy

Sarah Logan

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Farm workers at night
Fostering Transformational Change: Insights from a new learning methodology

Vivian Bronsoler Nurko

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Davos 2025: Ideas from across the IGC for the Intelligent Age

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How can better monsoon forecasts help farmers in India to adapt to climate change?

Fiona Burlig, Amir Jina, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Harshil Sahai

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Two women planting rice saplings in a paddy field
How Sierra Leone can join West Africa’s mobile money revolution

Marta Bertanzetti, Mohamed Ibrahim Justice Ganawah

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A woman dressed in orange withdraws money at an Orange Money cashier booth
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