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The Future of Impact Investing: A conversation with Sasha Dichter, Acumen’s Chief Innovation Officer
Sasha Dichter is the Chief Innovation Officer at Acumen, a noted speaker and blogger - and a panelist at the William Davidson Institute’s upcoming BoP Summit on Oct. 21-23. He spoke with NextBillion Financial Innovation recently about Acumen’s approach to impact investing, growth and challenges in the sector, and the need for more risk taking and innovation.
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- Impact Assessment
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Winners and Losers on the Road to Financial Inclusion: FI2020 Roadmaps help navigate the ongoing transformation in financial services
There is a transformation going on in financial services, fueled by rising incomes and IT breakthroughs. Now is a time of experimentation with new products, providers and delivery systems that reach previously excluded clients. Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director at the Center for Financial Inclusion discusses the FI2020 Roadmaps, with recommendations on navigating this new environment.
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NexThought Monday – Stories Without Borders: And one way to start telling them
In 2006, blogging was radical. But Doctors Without Borders tried it anyway, and field blogs help put a human face on the organization while allowing readers a glimpse into a world that was otherwise unknown to them.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – 9/28/13 : A shot in the arm by lowering the risk
This week, a new $94 million impact investment fund J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is launching with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looks to mitigate the risk for investors and pharmaceutical companies developing drugs for emerging markets.
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Scaling Impact Investing: Are there lessons from aid?
Will the impact investing sector ever be big enough to make a dent in the social problems it is trying to address? And what’s the best path to better financial returns and positive social or environmental impact? Acumen’s Head of Impact Tom Adams draws parallels to the history of development aid to ask how impact investing can truly scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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How to Make Markets Work for the Poor: … And measure the results
There is little hope of escaping poverty if markets don’t provide the poor with opportunities to increase their income through access to goods, services and employment opportunities. Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) is a facilitative approach to poverty reduction that seeks to understand where market systems are failing to benefit the poor, and how to take action to set them right.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Bank vs. Telco: The simmering mobile money standoff
Professional conferences are usually heavy on information and light on emotion. But participants at Friday’s Mobile Money conference were treated to as impassioned a debate as you’re likely to see in a roomful of financial services practitioners and academics. The combatants: a banker and a telco representative competing in the mobile financial services space in Africa.
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Game-changing Partnerships: Health care companies in rural India finding ways to complement each other
About 840 million people in India - or 72 percent of the total population of 1.2 billion - are rural. For these 840 million people, health care is basically inaccessible. A few innovative companies are out to change that.
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- Health Care
