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Could a new financial model provide power for the world’s poor?

For many people in the developing world, getting access to any kind of energy at all is a real challenge. This problem is particularly stark in Africa, where more than 500 million are without electricity. But as the FT’s Moral Money editor Simon Mundy explains, a new financial structure offers one model for how international investors might help to tackle the problem.

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