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OPINION: Sustainable investment performance criticisms ‘out-of-date’
Arguments that sustainable investment approaches are too simplistic and don’t offer competitive returns have been labelled as “out-of-date” by Kevin Parker, chief executive of Sustainable Insight Capital Management.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Kenya’s Equity Bank Seeks Share of Telco Business
An Equity Bank branch in Dadaab. In a move likely to upset the applecart in the telecom sector, Equity Bank has applied for a license to operate a mobile telephone business.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Community Foundations: What It Takes to Become Dynamic Hubs of Local Capital
What is preventing these anchor institutions from realizing their potential? What exactly is that potential, and how can community foundations shift to an impact investment strategy that really makes a difference to community success and resilience?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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d.light Announces $11 Million Series C Financing, Expands Board of Directors
The Series C round included participation from all major investors, including DFJ, Omidyar Network, Nexus India Capital, Gray Ghost Ventures, Acumen Fund and Garage Technology Ventures. With the closing of Series C, d.light has raised a total of $40 million in capital.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Indian Medical Devices Industry Welcomes Changes in Bill
The bill is significant because it recognises medical devices as distinct from pharmaceuticals for the first time and brings needed clarity to device regulation.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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e-health Centre Soon in Ghatshila Subdivision
The electronic health centre that will commence at Musabani Surda in March has the capacity to diagnose 90 patients each day.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Opinion: The Role of Global Health R&D in the New Development Framework
While everybody recognises that health is an essential precondition for development, the research and innovation dimension of global health has too often been side-lined in the development discourse.
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- Education, Health Care
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Tackling Newborn Deaths? We Need More (Qualified) Health Workers
With 78,977 stillbirths and first-day deaths, the Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the highest newborn mortality rate across sub-Saharan Africa, despite enjoying a high rate of 80.4 percent of skilled attendance at birth.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa