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Statement on Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi)

WASHINGTON, October 12, 2017 ‒ The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) donor countries today issued the following statement: It is with great pleasure that we officially launch...

World Bank Group: Development Finance Frontline – Strategic Investment Funds

This is the first of a series of occasional interviews with senior strategic investment fund (SIF) professionals. Tasked with attracting private investors to priority...
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Awards, inclusive policies, ESG and philanthropy attract talent: Report

MONEY isn’t always the biggest lure when people search for their dream jobs, research shows. Nearly half of adults canvassed — 46 percent — say...
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Some SME founders are putting everything on the line

AS THE deadline for the inquiry into SME finance nears, the founders of UK start-ups are facing increasing demands to personally guarantee business loans. Applications...
Globalvia: Autopista A23, Beira Interior

Keeping roads safe and open – and the via truly global!

Globalvia literally lives up to its name — an international organisation dedicated to roads and rail infrastructure IT'S EASY to tout an environmentally friendly approach...
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What in the world are we doing with our waste…?

By JASON AGNEW IT SEEMS that not a day goes by without a story concerning the environment and, more specifically, our mistreatment of it. Seas full...
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UK firms on cliff edge as crisis continues, distress tracker reveals

MORE than a half-a-million UK businesses are facing a high risk of insolvency, and 250,000 may not survive another month without a change to...
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The sky’s no longer the limit for zero-emission vehicles

EVs are no longer earthbound, as COP26 has just found out. BV’s Richard Thomas reports on the emergence of the electric passenger plane… US-BASED sustainable...
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It’s all about power, and which kind the world really needs…

The EV Summit 2020 is in progress; BV specialist RICHARD THOMAS reports with a summary of day one THE EV SUMMIT 2020 comes theoretically from...
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EV News Round-up Autumn 2019

By RICHARD THOMAS THREE months have passed since the last issue of BV, each bringing more developments in the Electric Vehicles world — on the...