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Exeo Capital Agri-Vie Fund II Attracts Over $100 Million
EXEO Capital, the pan-African private equity investment firm, has announced the first close of the second Agri-Vie Fund, focused on the food and agribusiness sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, after attracting commitments of over $100 million, one third more than the initial target.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Wall Street Journal Launches the Financial Inclusion Challenge 2017
For the third year, The Wall Street Journal invites nonprofit and for-profit enterprises to enter “The Financial Inclusion Challenge” competition and to showcase their solutions to the problems of financial access for the poor in the Asia-Pacific region.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Innovative Financing Key to Transforming Africa’s Healthcare
Targeted investments in infrastructure, workforce and improved governance are key to transforming the heath sector in Africa, said the head of the Health and Education Investment Team at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Biju Mohandas.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Here’s Why Top Business Schools Are Appealing More to Socially Minded Millennials
If you’re a business school student, there’s a good chance you’re at least broadly familiar with the life of Andrew Carnegie. The Gilded Age robber baron casts a pretty long shadow... particularly in his model for the life of a businessman in America: a ruthless competitor in business who compromised nothing in his pursuit of profit, and a committed philanthropist in his private life, clearly segregating his desire to conquer the business landscape and to mold a better world. Carnegie had a clear and inspiring vision of a better society, but he opted to leave it entirely out of his life as a captain of industry.
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- Education
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Rwandan Telecom Operator Launches Mobile Micro-Loans Service
Rwanda local telecom operator Tigo has launched a pilot phase of their mobile financial services platform that allows Tigo Cash users to access loans via their mobile wallets.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, mobile finance
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Social Impact Bonds to Fund Student Financial Aid Program in South Africa
Two hundred million rand has been raised for the pilot project, in which 2000 students have already been selected to participate.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial services firm IFMR Holdings expanding to target bottom 600 million people in India
Financial inclusion services provider IFMR Holdings, which will complete a decade this year, will embark on a major expansion drive.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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New African Union CDC health operations center is open for business
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was officially open for business on Wednesday, following a ribbon cutting ceremony at the conclusion of this week’s African Union summit.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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