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GIIN Launches Annual Impact Investor Survey 2016
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) today published the sixth edition of its Annual Impact Investor Survey, which signals continued market growth and an increasing interest in impact investing opportunities. With a sample that comprises 158 of the world’s leading impact investors, the survey provides detailed insight into investor perceptions and a number of key market variables such as types of investors, the number and size of investments made, target returns, and impact measurement practices. During 2015, respondents committed a total of $15.2 billion to impact investments and, as of year’s end, managed over $77 billion in impact assets. Impact investments continue to be made across different geographies, a range of sectors, and multiple asset classes.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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India Eyes Oil-for-Drugs Deal With Venezuela to Recoup Pharma Cash
Indian officials say they have proposed an oil-for-drugs barter plan with cash-strapped Venezuela to recoup millions of dollars in payments owed to some of India's largest pharmaceutical companies.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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MasterCard Commits Up to $1 Million to Advance Financial Inclusion in Rwanda
The MasterCard Centre for Inclusive Growth has committed up to $1 million over the next three years in order to advance economic growth and financial inclusion in Rwanda. The funds will be used to deliver a holistic mix of tools and resources, providing an opportunity to connect micro-entrepreneurs in Rwanda to the formal economy. This will help them to expand their business.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Unstoppable Rise of Fintech Is Rapidly Changing the Way Africans Transact
Africa is fertile ground for new fintech services which are leveraging the power of communities and social media to make financial services more relevant, while using data to deliver more meaningful financial services on an ongoing basis.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Colombia Battles World’s Biggest Drugmaker Over Cancer Drug
Colombia's government is giving pharmaceutical giant Novartis a few weeks to lower prices on a popular cancer drug or see its monopoly on production of the medicine broken and competition thrown open to generic rivals.
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- Latin America
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PATH and Laerdal Global Health to Accelerate Global Access to an Innovative Feeding Cup for Preterm and High-Risk Newborns
PATH and Laerdal Global Health announced today at the Women Deliver Global Conference that they will collaborate to bring a feeding cup to market based on a reference design co-developed by PATH, the University of Washington School of Dentistry, and the Craniofacial Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital, thereby ensuring an innovative feeding option for the 7.6 million preterm infants in Africa and Asia who have difficulty breastfeeding.
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- Health Care
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FINCA and First Access Announce World’s Largest Microfinance Fintech Collaboration
Today global microfinance leader FINCA and First Access, whose technology predicts the credit risk of borrowers in informal markets, announced a new collaboration that will create the largest and most sophisticated alternative credit-scoring approach by a microfinance institution (MFI) in the world. The partnership will vastly improve FINCA's outreach to excluded populations.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Money in South Africa: What’s in It for Banks?
The 2015 State of the Industry Report on Mobile Financial Services tabled at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona brings some interesting but not unexpected figures on the state of mobile money today. I say “unexpected” because any innovation that delivers simple, affordable and accessible product is bound to make its presence felt and disrupting the traditional systems.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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