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Opinion: Why markets should matter to health advocates
Today, one of global health’s biggest challenges — and opportunities — lies in strengthening the markets that make health products, services, and technologies available to those who need them most.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Community Capital Management Invests $25 Million in Innovative Impact Investing Asset-Backed Securities
Community Capital Management, Inc. (CCM), a leading fixed income impact investing manager, today announced new innovative financing activities on behalf of its clients within the asset-backed security (ABS) sector. These types of investments demonstrate the transformation occurring in impact investing, specifically within fixed income, for various types of bonds to have a positive social and/or environmental impact.
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- Investing
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Funding a set of essential medicines for low- and middle-income countries
As the world moves toward universal health coverage, the question arises: How can governments ensure equitable access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries?
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Acumen and GE Support Social Enterprises across East and West Africa to Build Inclusive Businesses that Tackle the Problems of Poverty
Since 2001, Acumen has invested more than $35 million in 31 companies in East and West Africa working in agriculture, energy, health care, clean water and sanitation to better serve each region’s poor
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Release of New European Microfinance Platform Action Group Publications
The European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) Action Groups are gearing up for the European Microfinance Week (EMW) where they'll gather for their annual meetings on 16 November and share their latest findings in panels organized on 17 - 18 November. In anticipation of EMW, the Microfinance & Environment Action Group and the Digital Innovations for Financial Empowerment Action Group have released the following publications.
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- Environment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Re-evaluating the ‘cost’ of life: Cancer-preventing HPV vaccines are substantially over-priced, says study
A recent study by leading American health researchers reveals that the manufacturing costs for the two most prevalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines could be priced much lower than even their quoted ‘no profit’ price, thus potentially having a substantial impact on the global morbidity and mortality rates associated with cervical cancer.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Pupils, Parents of Bridge International Schools Storm Parliament Over Closure
Parents and pupils of Bridge International Academies on Monday stormed parliament protesting against government's decision to close the schools. Uganda's High Court on Friday ordered the closure of 63 Bridge International Academies on grounds that the private schools provided unsanitary learning conditions, used unqualified teachers and were not properly licensed.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Fintech Startups Are Still a Long Way Off From Big Global Peers
Though IT trade body Nasscom claimed that India has more startups than China last week, the KPMG Fintech100 report for 2016 does not reflect it.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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