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Rockefeller backs Africa push by Mainstream
The family foundation of the wealthy Rockefeller dynasty has emerged as a backer of an energy project in Africa that's being spearheaded by Eddie O'Connor's Mainstream Renewable Power firm.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vaccine prices are 20 times higher in refugee camps, aid group charges
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has decried the high cost humanitarian organizations pay for vaccines – up to 20 times the normal prices – for vulnerable children in refugee settings. MSF and Save the Children are calling on drug companies to lower vaccine prices.
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- Health Care
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Global Partnerships and The Eleos Foundation Launch Social Venture Fund
Global Partnerships (GP) announces the launch of the Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund (SVF). The SVF is a new, early-stage impact-led fund investing in social enterprises that expand opportunity for people living in poverty in East Africa.
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- Investing
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The rise and rise of Mexican fintech
The financial services space ticks all the right boxes entrepreneurs look for when launching a company: hard to solve problems, meaningful impact, transformational technologies, clear business models and a solid financing environment.
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- Technology
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- Latin America
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- fintech, venture capital
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This SA startup uses tech to make healthcare lean
In a private healthcare clinic in Johannesburg CBD, a local startup is employing technology to make South African healthcare provision more lean. GetHealth was launched in February of last year, with its clinic opened in September 2015. Since then, over 4,000 people have come through its doors to experience the leaner, more efficient provision of healthcare the startup has to offer.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Among Foundations, Who’s the Biggest Impact Investor?
Figuring out which foundations engage in the most impact investing is not so easy. While some reports, like a 2015 study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, have gauged how widespread this practice has become in foundations, actual dollar amounts are still hard to come by—unlike annual grantmaking tallies, which are readily available.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm
GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: Blockchain Can Bring the Unbanked into the Global Economy
Many banks and financial entities envision the blockchain as delivering value to their customers in the form of reduced fees, faster funds transfers and simplified processes. Much less heralded, but potentially far more dramatic, is the transformational impact the blockchain could have on the world’s massive unbanked population.
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- Technology
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- blockchain
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