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A Growing Number of Opportunities for Investors to Create Impact
There is a growing appetite for investment products that focus on impact investing and social responsibility. Just last month, BlackRock announced that it would launch a new mutual fund, the Impact U.S. Equity Fund. According to Reuters the outcomes to be measured are “green innovation, corporate citizenship, high impact disease research, ethics controversies and litigation.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Investing for Good on Rise in Africa
Almost half of all assets under investment in three of Africa’s most significant economies are being invested for good in some way, according to new research from the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a specialised unit at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB).
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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StartUp Health Goes Global With Launch of StartUp Health Finland
Global health innovation company StartUp Health is expanding globally with the launch of StartUp Health Finland in partnership with Finpro’s Team Finland Health growth program. The partnership will further both organizations’ missions, to grow and scale the next generation of businesses and strengthen Finland’s position as a digital health leader.
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- Health Care
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Having a Bank Account Means Very Little
The number of South Africans who use their bank account simply as a storage tool – making one withdrawal a month and then transacting using cash – rose to 11 million in 2015 from 9 million in 2014, indicating poor financial inclusion, a recent study finds.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Here’s What Some Hotels Do With Those Used Bars of Soap
Several years ago, Erin Zaikis was working in rural Thailand. She was surprised to see how many children in the village didn’t wash their hands with soap, much less know what soap was.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A Guide to Financial Inclusion in Fragile States
Start with aid: At USAid we are looking for ways to convert traditional aid delivery models, such as commodities and vouchers, into cash transfers that are delivered in ways that encourage recipients to access safe, basic financial services. Kay McGowan, digital finance advisor, USAid, Washington DC, USA @KMcGowan@GlobalDevLab
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Tackling the World’s Deadliest Childhood Disease
Few people in the developed world would ever guess that pneumonia kills more children under the age of 5 than any other disease. This serious respiratory infection takes the lives of nearly a million children each year, with the vast majority of these deaths occurring in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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Report: Banks Have a $380 Billion Market Opportunity in Financial Inclusion
Banks can address an additional US$380 billion market in annual revenues by targeting micro-enterprises and bringing unbanked and underbanked adults into the formal financial system, according to a new report produced jointly by Accenture (NYSE:ACN), through Accenture Development Partnerships, and CARE International UK, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
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- Uncategorized
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- Europe & Eurasia
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