Finance

Amidst growing skepticism of traditional aid models, the field of results-based financing (RBF) has taken root. But with so many mechanisms – DIBs and...

A new analysis shows that despite its pledges to tackle climate change, the UK continues to support fossil fuels through overseas development...

The high-profile bankruptcies of some of the African off-grid industry’s best-known brands has raised questions on the long-term viability of current...

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently published research which revealed that global impact assets under management topped $502 billion...

One of the key challenges in getting energy and infrastructure projects off the ground in Africa is the lack of available funding.

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The UN’s industrial development organisation (UNIDO) defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a way of integrating social and environmental...

Subsidies that promote the use of fossil fuels are helping "to destroy the world", and are a bad way to deploy taxpayers' money, the head of the...

More and more lenders around the world are using alternative data to improve their credit models and better serve the underbanked. Alternative credit...

While many have come to recognize the potential for PAYGo solar to deliver affordable, reliable energy to off-grid customers, in the past year the...

Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa’s unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent’s young workforce (those aged 15-35)...