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Press Release: Citi Issues 2013 Global Citizenship Report
Citi today released its 14th Global Citizenship Report, an annual overview addressing the company’s social, environmental and governance achievements and challenges. The 2013 Citi Global Citizenship Report underscores Citi’s goal of enabling progress for clients and communities around the world.
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Microfinance Faces Uncertainty in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh government should reevaluate its pursuit to regulate and nationalize the operations of the Grameen Bank.
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- Asia Pacific
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Can a tool for doctors ‘fix’ evidence-based foreign aid?
As development institutions like the World Bank look for ways to make their projects and interventions more evidence-based, development practitioners have run into a problem faced by doctors a generation ago.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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“Correlation is not causation”: Roodman takes issue with World Bank study
The issue is standard. Correlation is not causation. The Economist makes a strikingly confident statement about how one thing affects another. The problem is that in families and villages, everything affects everything. Taking more microloans can make people wealthier or poorer. Being wealthier or poorer can make people take more microloans. The arrows go in circles. Statistics can measure correlations. How do we make the leap to causation?
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Should It Be A Law?
India is the first country to have corporate social responsibility (CSR ) legislation, mandating that companies give 2 percent of their net profits to charitable causes.
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Firms Investing in Social Sector Have deployed $1.6 B in India since 2000
According to a report, the number of foreign investors looking to invest in the social sector has increased.
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- South Asia
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Why impact investment could soon be a trillion-dollar industry
By the end of the decade, impact investment has the potential to reach $1 trillion (£600 billion) and deliver significant social benefits, according to Jennifer Kenning, director of wealth management and spearhead of impact investing at US wealth management firm Aspiriant.
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Investing in Africa: the imperative to invest sustainably
There is no one way to do business in Africa. But through exploring both the opportunities and the challenges experienced by companies operating successfully in Africa, a number of key lessons can be unearthed.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment