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Impact Investing Takes Hold on Business School Campuses
The likes of Harvard and Wharton are teaching investing for both financial and social benefit. Danielle Reed was already an impact investor when she stepped onto the campus of the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business in 2013 — though her family didn’t know it. They thought she worked at a nonprofit. But Reed actually worked for San Francisco-based boutique impact investing firm Imprint Capital, which was gobbled up by Goldman Sachs in 2015.
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- North America
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- impact investing
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China touts new bank’s greater understanding of developing world
The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will be different from institutions like the World Bank because it has a greater understanding of the developing world's needs, officials said on Sunday at its first annual meeting.
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- South Asia
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Brexit—what might it mean for global health?
As the country now grapples to come to terms with the consequences of this election, this rejection of EU membership threatens to have a great impact on the health of people both within the UK as well as internationally.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- public health
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Mercy Corps, MasterCard Target 18,000 Women in Nigeria Financial Inclusion Strategy
Under the landmark initiative, over 2,000 young women have gone through the Mercy Corps/ MasterCard programme while more than 6,000 participants from across Mercy Corps programmes have been registered for the multi-functional eID card. About 100 participants have already received their card.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Medical colleges: Health Ministry to scrap no-profit clause
Accepting in principle that a medical college can be a profit-making enterprise, the Health Ministry has started the process to remove a clause in eligibility rules which states that permission to companies to set up medical colleges would be withdrawn if there is “commercialisation”.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Private banks massively increase impact fund offerings
The impact investing business, not too long ago a cottage industry with only tiny funds on offer, is increasingly coming to market with more and bulkier impact investing funds, which is changing the industry’s dynamics.
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- Energy
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Johns Hopkins Students Design Ebola Protection Suit Improvements
For health workers in the field treating people stricken with Ebola and other diseases, a protective suit is the first defense against infection. The suit and head covering itself, however, can hamper their ability to help by impeding breathing, or heating up so quickly in high temperatures and humidity that they can scarcely work for more than an hour.
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- Education, Health Care
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Ghana Parliament Speaker overrules proposals seeking to ‘ban’ mobile money services
The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe- Adjaho has ruled to disallow a proposed amendment by the Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Dr. Mark Assibey –Yeboah, to the Banks and Special Deposit-taking institutions bill, currently at the consideration stage.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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