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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
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- 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
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Lack of Doctors in East Africa Spells Opportunity for Investors
In this monthly column called “The Indicator”, we take a economic or financial statistic from East Africa and break it down into bite-sized nuggets of knowledge for investors.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bitcoin Fintech Unocoin Sets $1.5M VC Indian Investment Record
Bangalore-based Bitcoin start-up Unocoin has raised $1.5 million (m) in a Pre ‘Series-A’ investment round, a record high for any digital currency venture in Indian history. But while the founder’s vision is to “scale Bitcoin” to the masses and address a largely ‘unbanked’ nation, is it such a big deal really?
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- Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup: PSI for Profit, a Slowing ‘Pulse’ in Africa and Medical Tourism on Steroids
The non-profit Population Services International (PSI) announces the launch of a for-profit business in India, sub-Saharan Africa braces for "the lowest growth in more than 20 years," and Obamacare generates some unintended – and potentially exciting – consequences. We discuss these and other issues in our weekly roundup of social business and global development news.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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