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Eli Lilly Plans $90 Million Investment to Improve Health Care in Poor Areas
Eli Lilly and Co. wants to improve access to health care for 30 million people in impoverished areas across the world.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- impact investing
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Seattle Accelerator Capria Boosts Fund Managers in Emerging Nations
A housecleaner-on-demand service in Cape Town, South Africa, has created 400 jobs and plans to keep growing across the African continent. A young gourmet tea business in Johannesburg is bringing high-end drinks to customers while supporting small, local farmers.
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- Investing
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Asia’s rich investors embrace social-impact investments
Asia's millionaires are the most socially conscious investors among their global peers, according to a new report.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing, research
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Is It Time for OPIC to Own Up?
Addressing today’s development challenges requires a massive mobilization of capital and resources that the current setup of development finance is ill-equipped to provide.
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- Investing
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Report: $90 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Could Combat Climate Change
The world will need to more than double its current infrastructure stock over the next 15 years – a massive undertaking which could either contribute to or combat catastrophic climate change – according to a new report.
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- Investing
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African Development Bank to Launch an Africa Investment Forum
The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the institution's proposal to launch an 'Africa Investment Forum (AIF)'--a meeting place for investors interested in Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa
The eyes of the private equity investor lit up as he strode across the empty floor of a recently built hospital here. There was not much to see: a stretch of unfinished concrete, and steel bars pushed into a corner.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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ImpactSpace and CSRHub Bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings to Impact Investments
ImpactSpace, the open database for the impact investing marketplace, is bringing CSRHub’s environmental, social and governance ratings into the world of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing