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MasterCard Foundation to Invest in Ugandan Companies
Uganda is among eight countries set to receive USD50m (Sh177b) by the Master Card Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity to fund innovations aimed at improving access to finance in rural populations in sub Saharan Africa.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Rapid Rise of Impact Investing
Investing in companies that create social, environmental and economic value is a trend that has been increasing worldwide. This type of triple-bottom-line investing is commonly called impact investing and last year, financial services giant JPMorgan estimated that the market was worth $60bn worldwide — and growing.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Low-fee private schooling: what do we really know?
In an age of quick fixes and silver bullets we are uncomfortable with shades of grey. But like it or not, it’s complicated.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- research
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PRESS RELEASE: TIAA-CREF Expands Suite of Responsible Investment Funds
Social Choice International Equity and Social Choice Low Carbon Equity Funds launched in response to growing investor interest.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Silicon Valley VC firm Social+Capital Partnership lines up over $1B for India by 2025
Four-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Social+Capital Partnership plans to invest over $1 billion in Indian companies in sectors such as financial services, energy, infrastructure and agriculture.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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INTERVIEW: GiveDirectly co-founder, on what its $25M grant will mean for cash transfers to the poor
A Q&A with GiveDirectly co-founder Paul Niehaus, on how GiveDirectly hopes to improve individual lives and reshape international giving.
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- Impact Assessment
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Report: Kenya “clear hub” for impact investing in East Africa
Kenya is the clear hub for impact investing in East Africa, accounting to more than half the impact capital deployed in the region, according to new research by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Open Capital Advisors.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Why One City in Congo Is Astonishingly Stable and Prosperous
Several years ago, I got a request from some officials at a well-known international organization, wondering if we could chat about the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. After some polite conversation about my own research, my inquisitors got to their questions: Why is the North Kivu city of Butembo so stable? How are members of the Nande ethnic group, by whom Butembo is almost entirely populated, so economically successful? Perhaps most important, could their model be replicated to bring stability and economic growth to other parts of the Congo as part of the project to rebuild the postwar Congolese state?
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa