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Analysis: Innovative Financing for the Sustainable Development Goals
The Executive Secretary at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific shares why more needs to be done to harness the potential of innovative financing for the SDGs.
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- Global
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Press Release: TriLinc Global Sustainable Income Fund II Secures Funding of $18 Million in Partnership With BlueOrchard Impact Investment Managers
TriLinc Global Sustainable Income Fund II announced a new funding of $18 million in partnership with BlueOrchard Finance Ltd to provide financing to middle market companies operating in Emerging Markets around the world.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Press Release: The ABC Fund Supports Bolivian Microfinance Institution CIDRE IFD With Multi-Million-Dollar Investment
The Agri-Business Capital Fund (‘ABC Fund’) has announced that it is investing USD 4.7 million in Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Regional (‘CIDRE IFD’), a microfinance institution providing financial support to smallholder farmers in Bolivia.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing
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- Latin America
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Fintech is Not Enough: Why Startup Investments in Africa Must Diversify Across Sectors
Africa is often considered one of the world's largest untapped venture markets, and this potential has fueled interest in the region's tech startups. But as Elo Umeh of Terragon Group explains, though investments have been increasing, they have typically focused only on certain sectors, like fintech and off-grid tech. He explores the value in diversifying these investments across other growing industries, including edtech, agritech and martech, and urges founders and investors to extend their resources to build a robust and complementary technology ecosystem on the continent.
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- Investing, Technology
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Shared Mobility Startup Plentywaka Raises $1.2 Million Seed Round and Acquires Stabus Ghana
Plentywaka acquired Ghanaian mobility startup, Stabus as it looks to expand its African operations, starting with West Africa.
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- Investing, Technology, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Spinning Green into Gold
ESG-focused fund inflows into Asia are growing, but investing is replete with risk given the region’s diversities and historical inequalities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, governance, impact investing, SDGs
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CapShift – An Impact Investment Platform Has Secured $5 Million in Funding
CapShift announces series a raise of $5 million to scale its charitable impact investing platform.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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Building Back Boldly: How Decisive Government Action Can Support Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID-19 Economy
COVID-19 caused a global economic contraction of 3.5% last year, inflicting particular damage on emerging economies and pushing approximately 120 million individuals back into extreme poverty. Consultants Kate Collins and Bar Pereg argue that disruption of this magnitude demands large-scale government investment – not only to address the pandemic's economic damage, but also to support the growth of innovative companies in an economy re-shaped by the crisis. They explore the impacts government interventions can have on entrepreneurship, and the importance of taking an ecosystem-wide approach.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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