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Viewpoint: Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?
The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. But are we scaling the right model?
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- Investing
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OPIC Provides $5 Million in Financing to Grameen Impact Investments India
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced that $5 million in local currency financing has been mobilized to Grameen Impact under an OPIC loan guaranty agreement with India’s IndusInd Bank.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Renewable energy projects worth $1bn destined for West Africa
With financial backing from the US government, solar developer Gigawatt Global Cooperatief signed a deal with the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), to build $1bn worth of renewable energy projects in the region.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Annual GIIN survey reveals dynamic and diverse impact investing market
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published the eighth edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey, which reveals that the impact investing industry is growing steadily.
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- Investing
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A new indicator of human development at subnational level
The farther one moves from capital and big cities, the weaker the educational and health facilities and the less the economic opportunities.
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- Impact Assessment
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- data, global development, SDGs
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Tata Trust’s FISE develops low-cost portable MRI scanner to take health services to rural India
In a statement to the press, FISE said that the 1.5 Tesla whole body MRI scanner can make MRI scans four times faster, compared to other scanners that are currently available in the market while consuming less power and being light weight hence easy to carry.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Almost half of the world’s population still doesn’t use a bank account
The World Bank recently released data on the state of global financial inclusion, and the results are eye-opening.
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- Finance
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The U.N. Goal That Doesn’t Get A Lot Of Respect
A new survey of 3,500 leaders in developing countries found that marine conservation is almost universally considered the least important of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals – essentially a checklist of priorities to help poor countries and aid organizations focus their attention on lifting the world's most vulnerable people to a higher standard of living.
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- Environment
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- global development, SDGs
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