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How is COVID-19 Affecting Food Security in West Africa? An Interview with Dr. Mabouba Diagne
Dr. Mabouba Diagne of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development talks to COVID-19 Africa Watc
h about the lessons of COVID-19 for improving food security in the West Africa region.
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Quels sont les impacts du COVID-19 sur la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l’ouest?
Dr. Mabouba Diagne, vice-président de la Banque de la CEDEAO pour l’investissement et le développm
ent, échange avec le Milken Institute au sujet de la sécurité alimentaire.
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Frank Aswani: Strengthening Africa’s Social Investment Ecosystem to Help Tackle COVID-19
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Dr. Frank Aswani about ways to bolster Africa’s social investment e
cosystem to help the continent’s economic recovery from the pandemic.
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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals Despite the Pandemic: Interview with Professor Allam Ahmed
Prof. Allam Ahmed, founding President of the World Association for Sustainable Development, speaks
to COVID-19 Africa Watch about financing the SDGs, human capital, and access to electricity.
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Interview: Yawa Hansen-Quao on Strengthening Public Service and Civil Society to Build Back Better
Key Takeaways
Below are some of the main takeaways from COVID-19 Africa Watch’s conversation with Y
awa Hansen-Quao – Executive Director of Emerging Public Leaders – a youth-t
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Accelerating Securitization in Africa: The Benefits of Investing in Securitization Transactions
Accelerating Securitization in Africa: The Benefits of Investing in Securitization Transactions
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rsday, September 10, 2020
Securitization is increasingly seen as critical to mobilizing private capital to finance the Sustainable Dev
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Leveraging Philanthropy to Transform Patients' Lives
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic disease that causes tumors in the nervous syste
m, occurs in approximately 1 in 3,000 individuals, regardless of gender, race, and ethnicity.
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COVID-19 and the Future of Aging: The Future for Healthy Aging
Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn on how the pandemic may, and must, change things.
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FinTech in Focus — February 22, 2021
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COVID-19 and the Future of Aging: The Outlook for Age-Friendly Health Systems
Why Terry Fulmer, President of The John A. Hartford Foundation, is optimistic about how we’ll think
about care for older adults.
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Provo-Orem, Utah Tops Milken Institute’s 2021 Ranking of Best-Performing Cities
California’s San Francisco and San Jose—in the top five last year—dropped to Tier 2 due to high hous
ing costs and short-term job loss; Idaho Falls, Idaho, is No. 1 among small US cities.
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