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Impact Investing: $1.5 Billion in Commitments and a New Resource for Policymakers
It's a great week for impact investing. At the White House roundtable on impact investing today, corporations, banks, foundations, and individuals including Prudential, Capricorn Investment Group and the Omidiyar Network committed to invest more than $1.5 billion in new capital into companies and funds that strive to generate positive financial and social returns. US government agencies, including the Small Business Administration, USAID and Treasury, also announced programs to support impact investments and social enterprises.
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MTN offers Mobile Money Visa in South Africa
MTN SA has launched a Visa card for Mobile Money users in SA.
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Save the Children and Ikea tie up to prevent child labour in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan
The programme is aimed at protecting 790,000 children living in cotton communities in these states
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- South Asia
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Want To ‘Scale’ Social Impact? Then Give Away Your Trade Secrets
If the ecosystem of social change were an orchestra, social enterprise would be an amped-up brass section drowning out all the other instruments and any semblance of nuance.
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India likely to extend price caps to more drugs-sources
(Reuters) - India is likely to raise the number of drugs deemed essential and therefore subject to price caps to improve affordability, said people directly involved in the process.
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Serenus Biotherapeutics sees large potential market in Africa
San Francisco's newest pharmaceutical company is staking its future on a distant continent: Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: “Project Last Mile” Expands to Improve Availability of Life-Saving Medicines in Additional Regions of Africa
The Coca-Cola Company, USAID, the Global Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invest more than $21M USD to expand initiative to 10 countries
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Radio Station Reaches Remote Areas Through Cell Phones
Unilever in India launches a marketing initiative that provides entertainment and ads in areas unreachable by other media.
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