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PRESS RELEASE: First-of-Its-Kind Survey Finds $23 Billion Global Market for Conservation Investing
The first-ever survey of conservation impact investing reveals a fast-growing market totaling approximately $23 billion in the five-year period from 2009-2013.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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A chocolate factory with a higher purpose
When Shawn Askinosie left a successful law career and founded his bean-to-bar chocolate company in 2006, he set out to make a prize-winning product while helping developing-world farmers and their communities. Today he practices direct trade, meeting face-to-face with farmers to buy their cacao beans at above fair trade prices. And he returns each year to share 10 percent of his profits as well.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bill Gates-Backed Group Weighs Funding for Ebola Vaccine
As GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) and other drugmakers race to develop and deploy vaccines against West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, one key question remains: who will pay?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel joins GSMA’s mobile health programme
Bharti Airtel today said it has joined GSMA's mobile health partnership programme which aims to provide a range of services to women and children across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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India next on Abbott’s global rebranding map
In a bid to reach out and engage with consumers more, the $22-billion US healthcare major Abbott is redefining its corporate identity, with India becoming one of the first markets after the US and Brazil where the change is being rolled out.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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An IPO at the Base of the Pyramid?
Some say D.light could be one of the first base-of-the-pyramid IPOs to offer shares on a major stock market.
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Tanzania: CRDB, European Bank Sign Landmark Sh43 Billion Deal to Support Small Businesses
CRDB Bank and European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed a landmark 20 million Euros (about Sh 43 billion) agreement to support small scale businesses.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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Survey: Banking growth has not boosted savings in South Africa
The number of banked South Africans has grown to 27.4 million over the past ten years, or about 75% of the total adult population. But this increase has not translated into a higher incidence of saving, with only 20% of banked adult South Africans saving either in banks or non-bank financial institutions.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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