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Press release: African Development Bank, Nordic Development Fund and Partners launch Off-Grid Energy Access Fund with US$58 million
The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (OGEF) had its first close on Thursday, 2 August 2018 with committed capital of US$ 58 million from the African Development Bank, the Nordic Development Fund, the Global Environment Facility, Calvert Impact Capital and All On.
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- Press release
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brac, Osiris Group announce Impact Fund Partnership
Brac, an international development organization based in Bangladesh, has partnered with the Osiris Group, a private equity firm that invests in Asia—to establish the Impact Fund Partnership.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Press release: FINCA International launches FINCA Ventures, an impact investing initiative
FINCA Ventures reflects FINCA International’s commitment to advancing market-led innovations supporting the world’s poor. By linking access to finance with access to basic services, FINCA Ventures can help increase the quality of life and productivity of FINCA’s global customer base, and create opportunities to extend financial inclusion by developing new financial products and services for unbanked and under-banked families.
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- Press release
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- Investing
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JP Morgan, Gates, Dell give $9.5 million for India’s Financial Inclusion Lab
American philanthropic investors are now coming in to further push India’s digitisation drive and financial inclusion.
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- South Asia
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Press release: MicroVest Announces Investment in Pakistan’s Kashf Foundation
The investment furthers MicroVest’s commitment to make financial inclusion a reality in
emerging economies through impact investing.- Categories
- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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The Rise Of B Corps Highlights The Emergence Of A New Way Of Doing Business
Today’s workforce is rejecting the old Milton Friedman notion that the only social responsibility of business is to maximise profits; they think business should also be trying to make a positive difference in the world. And quite right too: why should we stop caring about the things that matter to us when we go to work?
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- Investing
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Report: ‘Millennial generation’ most interested in investing to make a positive global impact
Two out of five investors (43 per cent) aged under 40 report having made an impact investment during their lifetime, the study says.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, research, youth
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Press release: New Report Reveals a Growing and High-Potential Impact Investing Market in Southeast Asia
The Landscape for Impact Investing in Southeast Asia report provides deep insight into the three most active markets in the region: Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and a broader regional overview of the remaining eight countries, namely Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Tags
- impact investing
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