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7 Businesses Win African Impact Innovation Fund
7 businesses have been announced as the winners of the Africa Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF), an endowment supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation to provide grant capital for entrepreneurs with projects that create jobs.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Impact Investments Seek to Solve Social or Environmental Challenges while Generating Financial Profit
Elevar Equity, an impact investor, is looking to raise its third fund with a target corpus of $75 million by end-2014.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Nathealth and Nasscom in Pact to Deliver Healthcare Services in India
“The idea is that healthcare cannot go to next level without IT. So, there is an opportunity for businesses to collaborate."
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Merck Serono Supports India’s Two-tier Drug Pricing Policy
The US Chamber of Commerce may think India is an inhospitable terrain for innovation, but surprisingly, Big Pharma doesn't agree.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research, supply chains
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Merck expands its Capacity Advancement Campaign to Mozambique
Merck Germany has expanded the Capacity Advancement Program first rolled out in Kenya to Mozambique, a move to show its taking Africa seriously.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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Press Release: Winners of the Sankalp Africa Awards for High Impact SMEs Announced
12 SMEs from around Africa showcased to an audience of 450 investors, donors, advisors and other SME sector supporters, 4 win awards at the first ever Sankalp Africa Summit in Nairobi.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile cash delights tithe-eager pastors in Zimbabwe
PENTECOSTAL churches in Zimbabwe have moved to take advantage of mobile phone penetration rates now said to be about 103.5 percent and the introduction of mobile money platforms to ease their tithe worries.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-Pesa, MoneyGram in money transfer service agreement
M-Pesa – through its parent company Vodafone – and global money transfer and payment services firm MoneyGram have signed an agreement enabling consumers to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to the millions of M-Pesa users.
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- Uncategorized