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  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site Fletcher D-Prize 6 years ago

    2018 Winners EDKASA, an educational technology venture co-founded by Sohail Ali, F’19, along with Bakhtawar Ali, F’19, leverage the rapid speed of internet penetration in Pakistan to make rock star teachers acc […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site Fletcher D-Prize 6 years ago

    Menghan Li (F18) first realized she wanted to fight poverty while she was working with rural children. These children had been abandoned, not only because their parents needed to find employment, but also […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site Fletcher D-Prize 6 years ago

    Picture this: 10 tons of maize grown by 8000 different smallholder farms in Rwanda, all trying to get to market in Kigali. The challenge? The crops are here; the markets are there. Lack of access to reliable, […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site Fletcher D-Prize 6 years ago

     

    What’s it like to launch a social venture in a low-income country and have real world impact?

    Fourteen-year-old Senait lives in a one-room house in Gondar with her mother, father and seven siblings. Cu […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site Fletcher D-Prize 6 years ago

     

    “Buses are the West African version of FedEx and Paypal mixed together.” Andrew Lala, Clair de Lune co-founder.

    In remote regions of Sub-Saharan African, where local bus routes provide one of the few regu […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by Weiyi Wang, Jinghao Lu, and Wilmot Allen

    An emerging shift of the Cotton-Textile Apparel (CTA) value chain from China to East Africa has been influenced by China’s excess capacity, lower labor costs, d […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    K&L Gates, SovereigNET, The Fletcher School’s Network for Sovereign Wealth and Global Capital, and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds are pleased to announce our Sixth Annual symposium on global i […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by James Politi

    Italy was heading for a possible constitutional crisis after the country’s leading populist political parties dropped their bid to form a government following a dramatic decision by Sergio M […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by Marion Laboure,  Haiyang Zhang, &  Juergen Braunstein

    Key features of Chinese history and culture have put it in a position to become the global leader in artificial-intelligence technologies, s […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by Conor Friedmann, Tufts Daily

    The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) team advanced to the final round at the Americas Regional Challenge after winning the local final of […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    In 2016, the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) requested each of its member institutions to complete a self-assessment of their implementation of the Generally Accepted Principles and Practices […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    Co-edited by SovereigNet Affiliate Javier Capapé, IE Sovereign Wealth Labs presents the sixth edition of the Sovereign Wealth Funds Report, a joint project of ICEX-Invest in Spain and IE Business School. The […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by Javier Capapé

    Achieving the SDGs requires the mobilization and effective use of all available sources of financing. Countries use different mechanisms to manage, allocate and distribute revenues: SWFs are […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 7 years ago

    by Jürgen Braunstein

    The present article brings domestic politics into an analysis on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) that are relevant for the study of contemporary geopolitics. What are the domestic drivers […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 8 years ago

    On 24 and 25 May 2017, SovereigNET at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy hosted a member workshop of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF). The workshop – Beyond the Market: Reframing R […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 8 years ago

    by Erin Banco

    While it is legal to do business with RDIF in certain circumstances, there are several nuanced restrictions that if ignored or overlooked can easily lead to a violation. The resulting uncertainty […]

  • Check out our research report on “Smart Societies,” with in-depth looks at Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, South Korea, and the United Kingdom:

  • Check out the latest region-specific Digital Planet research on Latin America and the Caribbean

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 8 years ago

    by Jürgen Braunstein

    Sovereign wealth funds – large state-owned investment funds – are key players in international finance, but little is known about their underlying political drivers. Why do some sta […]

  • IBGC wrote a new post on the site SovereigNet 8 years ago

    by Wilmot Allen

    The Ai Emerging Managers Forum (AiEMF), is a unique international platform for emerging managers and investment leaders, to share industry best practice, improve governance standards and assist […]

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