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What Somalia’s Impending Famine Teaches Us About Addressing Donor Fatigue

Christensen Institute

In 2009 , for example, fears that Islamist insurgent Al-Shabaab was benefiting from the influx of food aid led the U.S In a World Bank assessment of Somalia’s poverty and vulnerability, remittances are listed as the major source of external development finance for Somalia. It creates prosperity and thus combats donor fatigue.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

Lessons from the last Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) were that financial institutions are putting more emphasis on liquidity and risk premiums in order to create a financial stable economy and society. Improving Basel III by including sustainabitity measures is necessary to close the green finance gap.

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100%Open Past and Future

100%Open

The major shift from 2009 to today is that most large organisations have embraced open innovation as mainstream within their innovation, partnering and investment activities. 100%Open facilitated the recent Open Innovation in Banking conference in Paris a few weeks back. The answer, it turns out quite often, is no.

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At what speed do we close the green finance gap?

Norbert Bol

Lessons from the last Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009) were that financial institutions are putting more emphasis on liquidity and risk premiums in order to create a financial stable economy and society. Improving Basel III by including sustainabitity measures is necessary to close the green finance gap.

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How best to use innovation to fight corruption: 2 Case Studies

Idea to Value

The clearest example came from Afghanistan, where their offshoot M-Paisa was first trialed in 2009 to pay their police force via their phones instead of with cash. Afghanistan is a country where less than 5% of people have a bank account, so cash was traditionally the major means of getting paid.

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Is Investing in Cryptocurrency a Wise Idea?

The Human Factor

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that has been around since 2009. The rise of Bitcoin has also paved the way for several different cryptocurrencies in the market from Ethereum to Dogecoin. Today, Bitcoin has become an asset with a huge potential for growth and it’s no surprise that an increasing number of people are investing in it.

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Overwhelmed, underwhelmed at the Web Summit, Lisbon

Paul Hobcraft

The Web Summit, originally Dublin Web Summit, is a technology conference held annually since 2009. It has the chance to mingle, seek out tech founders, investors, prime ministers, magazine editors, heads of global banks and multiple startups all under one roof. The company was founded by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly, and Daire Hickey.