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Ashoka Changemakers #socintchat Twitter Chat to Discuss Social ‘Intrapreneurship’
Ashoka Changemakers is hosting a Twitter chat Thursday (Jan. 10) at 3PM IST on ‘Social Intrapreneurship’ .
Social intrapreneurs are becoming instigators in the race towards a new kind of economy. These changemakers are developing innovative and scalable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems ranging from health to education to environment.- Categories
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Chinese microcredit firms lend 600 bln yuan
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese microcredit companies reported 600 billion yuan (96.31 billion U.S. dollars) in outstanding loans by the end of last year, up 52 percent year on year, an association head said Tuesday.
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New Partnership to Develop Business Models for Providing Basic Services to the BoP in Latin America
IDB’s MIF, OMJ to provide grants and technical assistance for businesses seeking to provide health care, education, energy and water for poor and low-income communities
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Impact Investors Ready to Open the Spigot : J.P. Morgan, GIIN study projects $9 Billion Committed for Impact Investing 2013
J.P. Morgan and the GIIN today released Perspectives on Progress, which takes the collective temperature of the impact investing community – and the mercury is rising. The 99 investors who replied said they plan to commit a total of USD $9 billion toward impact investments in 2013. That’s $1 billion more than these organizations said they invested in 2012.
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A Record-Breaking Year for Mobilizing Private Capital for Development
USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) worked with 45 financial institutions in 23 countries in 2012 to unlock up to $525 million in private capital for underserved entrepreneurs in developing countries. The financing, made available through 34 partial credit guarantees, is the most USAID has mobilized in a single year.
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Maybe an accelerator at sea isn’t so ‘Unreasonable’ after all
11 entrepreneurs will set sail on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator with the goal to break into the global market to solve the world's most pressing problems with the backing of some of the best tech minds that the industry has to offer.
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AP microfinance crisis helped Bandhan grow by over 50%
At a time when many microfinance companies are still reeling under pressure following the crisis in Andhra Pradesh about two years ago, Kolkata-based Bandhan Financial Services is planning to expand. The company plans to apply for a banking licence as and when the Reserve Bank of India comes out with the final guidelines on the subject.
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Pilot financial index for social investment unveiled
Could an asset class for social impact investment be a step closer to becoming a reality?
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