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Bitcoin Still Not Ready for Prime Time, Citi Says
Bitcoin is essentially a successful proof-of-concept of a digital currency, states the report, written (like the others) by Keith Horowitz with contributions from Adrien Porter, Frieda Liao, and Michael Cronin. It’s not exactly meant as a compliment, because that is all the group is willing to credit to the cryptocurrency.
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- Technology
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- blockchain
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Uber Driver Data in Kenya Helps Bridge Credit Gap
Sidian Bank has approved its first car loans to experienced Uber [UBER.UL] drivers in Kenya, using a model the ride hailing service hopes can be rolled out across countries in Africa where a lack of customer data limits lending.
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- Transportation, Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Perspective: Flying solo weakens chronic disease fight
The most significant threat to global health is the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These conditions — including cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illness and respiratory conditions — are responsible for two-thirds of death and disability globally. And because they disproportionately afflict people in developing countries, they are strongly linked with development and social justice.
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- Health Care
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There’s Big Money Again in Saving Humanity With Antibiotics
Big Pharma is creeping back into development of new antibiotics after decades of largely ignoring the business due to the scant rewards offered by such medications.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: Doing Good by Investing in Sin
The recent growth in ethically and socially responsible funds now represents trillions of dollars of mandates. Many of these funds engage in negative screening – excluding investments that are involved in activities that are considered unethical or socially irresponsible such as defence, guns, alcohol, tobacco, adult entertainment, gambling, nuclear energy and, most recently, fossil fuels.
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- Impact Assessment
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Catholic Church Explores Impact Investing
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Catholic Relief Services hosted a three-day Vatican conference on Impact Investing in Rome, from June 26 to 28, with this agenda. Celebrating the “Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy” established by Pope Francis and his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si,” the conference was titled, “Making the Year of Mercy a Year of Impact for the Poor.”
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- Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- impact investing
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Impact Engine Launches $10M Fund, Betting Capitalists Can Do Well While Doing Good
Some dismiss social impact entrepreneurship as a feel-good diversion. But a group of successful investors in Chicago are throwing $10 million on the table to prove that capitalists can do well while doing good.
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- Uncategorized
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- North America
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- impact investing
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MasterCard Commits to the Inclusion of 40 Million Micro and Small Merchants
To date, financial inclusion has been predominantly centered on providing the underserved and the unbanked with tools and transaction accounts. This remains a critical need with two billion unbanked people, the majority of whom are women, forced to operate in a cash economy.
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- Uncategorized
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