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Why Women are Key to the Next Wave of Impact Investing
Why aren't more women and minorities represented in angel and venture capital investing? It’s a vexing question Alicia Robb is addressing.
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- Investing
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This Social Enterprise Empowers Mothers Of Special Needs Children
The social enterprise arm of the business creates meaningful jobs for women with special needs children through a product line that includes shoes, a collaborative coffee business with Whole Foods Market, and a bottled water business.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment
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This Simple Mobile Layaway Plan For Poor Farmers Just Won $1.25 Million
The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship honored MyAgro, which helps developing world farmers save enough to reinvest in their farms–along with companies working on making solar panels cheaper, making reporting sexual assault easier, and more.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Moves to Protect Mobile Money Users
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has amended the National Payment Systems Act to prevent close to five million mobile money subscribers from losing their money should network operators (MNOs) collapse, an official has said.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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How an African startup built a bitcoin network while crypto’s reputation crumbled
When jobs in banking dried up after the global economic crash in 2008, Elizabeth Rossiello went to work in Africa at several microfinance operations, where she saw firsthand how Kenya’s recently launched M-Pesa mobile money service was transforming payments. Then, Rossiello heard that cryptocurrencies would be the next big thing. In 2013 she founded BitPesa, a digital foreign exchange and payments platform based in Nairobi.
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- Finance
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- cryptocurrency
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FCMB Capital Markets facilitates N3.15 billion bond listing for LAPO Microfinance Bank
FCMB Capital Markets Limited has facilitated a successful fundraising and listing of LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited’s N3.15 billion bond on the FMDQ OTC platform.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sri Lanka Post Ushers Money Orders into the Digital Age with Sampath Bank
Sri Lanka joined hands with Sampath Bank to unveil e-Pay Mobile Cash, a revolutionary service that leverages the wide spread network of post offices, sub-post offices and Sampath Bank ATMs around the island to enable real time money transfers in a secure and convenient manner.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Perspective: Captalism’s new formula: Capital + Purpose = Social impact
With impact investing, some of the things we could change can include the social injustice meted out to the three billion poor and rendering poverty to history. It could make the phrase "climate change" obsolete and restrict global warming to less than 1.5 percent.
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