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Advisory board on impact investing to drive SDGs
More than 550 people from 43 countries met in Chicago to discuss how to deploy sufficient private capital to fund the Sustainable Development Goals over the next 13 years. It was a ringing response to recent cries for nationalistic policies regarding the insufficiency of planetary resources.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Visa’s payment service stirs competition in Kenya’s mobile money market
A global payments firm Visa has taken the competition for mobile money service a notch higher with the launch of mVisa that enables Kenyans use mobile phones to transact cash and make payments. The rollout of the service will enable Kenyans make free domestic mobile money transfers using mVisa.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Going Cashless? Bad for Tax Cheats, Privacy, Poor
Could physical cash go away entirely? Economists see great payoffs in a cashless society: lower transaction costs, new tools to manage economic growth and an end to tax evasion and money laundering. Critics see an end to privacy, frightening new powers for tyrants and costs that would fall disproportionately on the poor.
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- Financial Inclusion, Technology
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Paying poor landowners not to cut trees a cheap way to save forests
Ugandan villagers paid $28 a year not to cut trees. Study finds that's cheaper than mitigating climate change.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google releases 20 million mosquitos in Fresno, California
The so-called Debug Project by Alphabet’s life-sciences unit has set itself a lofty goal: “To reduce the devastating global health impact that disease-carrying mosquitoes inflict on people around the world.”
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- Health Care
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- North America
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Red Bull Announces Final Participants for First-Ever U.S. Social Entrepreneur Program
Sexual violence, food deserts, education equality, public transportation, and gender equality are just some of the issues being addressed by the social innovators selected for the Red Bull Amaphiko Academy, a global program for social entrepreneurs - taking place in Baltimore, MD on August 11-20.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North America
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First Impact Report on Economic, Environmental and Social Performance of Clean Technology Companies Released by Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
"Measurement of social and environmental impact beyond financial metrics provides investors with a broader understanding of the true risks, costs and opportunities involved, thus enabling more informed investment decisions," states UBS Managing Director, Andrew Lee, Head of Impact Investing.
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- Entrepreneurship, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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Global Remittances Conference has named Africa as the most expensive place to send money globally
“The absence or weakness of a digital payments infrastructure and acceptance network, a financially included population, and/or an identification system means that many of the traditional acceptance services, such as terminating into a bank account or mobile wallet, are not always available,” the report says.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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