Incense investment: Vatican startups

https://espresso.economist.com/7436b0dc99f8aed11026252aeade1a3a
-- Dec 4th 2018

Incense investment: Vatican startups

  • Vatican 梵蒂冈

Ten new companies, selected from 400 applications, gather today at the Vatican to pitch to religious leaders and philanthropists.

  • pitch 争取支持
  • philanthropist 博爱主义者;慈善家

The “Laudato Si’ Challenge”, inspired by Pope Francis’s 2015 eponymous encyclical, aims to help startups that offer solutions to the problems generated by migration.

  • eponymous 同名的
  • encyclical 教皇通谕

One company, Leaf, is developing blockchain technology to connect the unbanked to the global economy through their mobile phones.

  • blockchain 区块链

Chatterbox offers language lessons by refugees, while DoctHERs connects female doctors in Pakistan to “underserved communities”.

  • refugees 避难者;逃亡者
  • underserved 服务水平低下的;服务水平低下;服务不足

Italy’s geography has made it a first port of call for migrants making their way from north Africa to Europe.

  • call for 呼吁;主张;需要;接(某人)
  • make one's way 前进;行进;走去

Successive governments have failed to promote their integration in society.

  • Successive 连续的;接连的;相继的

Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing Northern League and interior minister in Italy’s coalition government, continues to campaign vigorously against immigration.

  • right-wing 右翼的;右派的
  • coalition government (两党或多党)联合政府
  • interior minister 内政部长;内务部长;内务大臣
  • campaign against 针对……的运动
  • vigorously 精神旺盛地;精力充沛地;用力地

A big test of today will be if startups can help where the state is failing.

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