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Impact Investing’s Image Problem
Steve Schueth, president of First Affirmative Financial Network, offered an analogy that made the usual invest-to-make-money-first-and-then-be-philanthropic-later approach sound something like a Viking raid.
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- Impact Assessment
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Reserve Bank of India’s move to issue differentiated banking licences is path-breaking – but challenges remain
The RBI's move to issue differentiated banking licences is path-breaking but challenges galore.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 now open
USD 150,000 in prizes for continent’s brightest innovators to accelerate Africa’s development. With 2000 innovators from 48 countries entering in its first three years; IPA 2015 takes investment in unleashing and supporting sustainable African led innovation past half a million USD
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Manila Is Building Out A 100,000-Strong Network Of Electric Trikes
Giving the city's three-wheeled taxi network an electric upgrade.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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OPINION: Brazil’s Unaffordable Homes
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — I live in Mandaqui, a district six miles from downtown. The nearest subway station is roughly two miles away, or about 30 minutes by bus, since they’re slow and scarce. It’s not the best place to live if you don’t have a car. Even so, the average price per square foot here recently soared to $250. Real estate in prime areas of the city can now cost as much as $465 per square foot.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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Harvard Business School Appoints Matt Segneri Director of Its Social Enterprise Initiative
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named Matthew M. Segneri (MBA 2010) the new Director of its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), succeeding Laura Moon, who has become Managing Director of the School’s wide array of Initiatives, which focus on research and course development in specific topics such as leadership, health care, and digital technology.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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How 500 Startups-backed SocialCops gets to the bottom of the pyramid with big data
India, like most developing countries, struggles to bridge the gulf between authorities and the common man. Even the best of intentions come to naught when the benefits of welfare schemes don’t reach the people who need them the most — and those in high places can’t seem to figure out why.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley to partner on Crowdfunding Research
Over a year ago, Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley began collaborating on the launch of UC Berkeley’s Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance, headed by Dr. Richard Swart, who serves as its Director of Research at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.
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- Education, Impact Assessment