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PRESS RELEASE: China enters the era of social impact investing
The 13th Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School was on October 31st. The results of a study on social impact investing in China were released for the first time in history. It is the first time that China has formally dispatched a group to attend a social enterprise conference at Columbia University
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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Indian start-up to enable bank transactions via kirana stores
Novopay uses Aadhaar biometric scanner for dealings
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- South Asia
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USAID encourages private sector participation in new healthcare program
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday launched its Healthy Markets program, an initiative to encourage the investment of local private sector and foster growth of a commercial market, in Ho Chi Minh City.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Bill Gates to give $500 million for malaria, other diseases
US philanthropist Bill Gates on Sunday announced he will donate over $500 million to fight malaria and other infectious diseases in the developing world, saying the Ebola outbreak is a call to action.
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Good for health, good for business
Why would a global corporation reinvest 20 percent of its profits from developing countries back into training health workers? It’s simple. Health workers are the driver of health systems.
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- Education, Health Care
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Mumbai’s dream of becoming an international financial center may soon be a reality
Other centres in Asia may be losing their shine—Dubai is surrounded by geopolitical chaos and Singapore is apparently turning less attractive to expatriate workers due to slowing economic growth—marking an opportunity for Mumbai to aspire to that regional position.
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PRESS RELEASE: Impact Accelerator launched in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Impact Investment Exchange Asia has launched its first Impact Accelerator program in the Philippines, an intensive in-country program designed to accelerate early-stage social enterprises that have high potentials to create positive social and environmental impact at scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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Equity says 200,000 have signed up for its mobile money platform in Kenya
EQUITY Bank yesterday said it has “quietly” registered over 200,000 customers on its mobile money transfer platform, Equitel, in the ongoing rollout.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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