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PRESS RELEASE: RBC Global Asset Management Announces $50 Million Impact Investing Initiative
RBC Global Asset Management today announced an agreement with Community Reinvestment Fund, USA to purchase and service up to $50 million in loans to support affordable rental housing as part of the RBC Access Capital Community Investment Strategy.
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- impact investing
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Development Finance Institutions Come of Age
In a world where private enterprise drives jobs and prosperity, DFIs expand the frontiers of what is viewed as a profitable investment opportunity around the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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OPINION: Microfinance in India: To hell and back
In a nation where half the population isn’t served by formal banking system, the microfinance industry acquired a halo in the early part of last decade. And then, the Andhra Pradesh crisis happened.
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- South Asia
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Why Ebola wasn’t stopped by huge investment in African healthcare
Despite it being nearly six months after the Ebola outbreak was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), we are still hearing stories of severe shortage of gloves in health facilities in West Africa. Many nurses have been asked to reuse them or merely rub their hands with chlorine after consultations.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Issues continue to dog the testing of Ebola drugs and vaccines
The fact that no “flexible and innovative protocol” exists for Ebola speaks to the complex practical and ethical issues that surround the use of untested drugs and vaccines in the midst of the explosive spread of a virus that kills more than half the people it infects.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Investing in local production of medicines is a priority
A high-level meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, explored how countries can improve access to medicines and develop their domestic production, with the help of public and private investment.
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- Health Care
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WakaWaka Power gets a big brother with the new solar-powered ‘first aid kit’
This solar gadget innovator is back with a new model, the WakaWaka Base, which includes either a 5,000 or 10,000 mAh battery pack, and the device is designed to be charged with the company's 7.5 or 10 watt portable solar panel. Along with the solar panel and battery pack module, WakaWaka is also offering two small LED lamps, one of which is powered by plugging it into the Base, and one which has an internal battery that can be recharged via the panel and battery pack.
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- Energy
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Africa: The Overlooked Hub of Payments Innovation
A number of financial institutions are using emerging technology to deliver payments on the continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance