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Microfinance Struggling to find its feet in Middle East
Microfinance has blossomed in recent years, helping fill a funding need for businesses too tiny and risky for traditional banks. Curiously perhaps, while microfinance has been a big hit across parts of Asia and South America, its start in the Middle East and North Africa hasn’t been as auspicious.
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PRESS RELEASE: TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investments in Kenya, South Africa and Argentina
TriLinc Global Impact Fund announced today that it has approved a total of $9.9 million in trade finance facilities to a Kenyan, a South African and an Argentine company, bringing total financing commitments as of September 29, 2014 to $38.1 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development through its holdings in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia
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Green Divestment Movement Still in Its Infancy Despite Rockefeller Coup
In announcing last week that it would purge its portfolio of fossil fuel investments, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund did more than make a financial decision; it joined a movement.
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How Agent Orange helped spawn the Socially Responsible Investing movement
Sustainable, socially responsible mutual funds would not exist without agent orange.
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Crowdfunding Becomes Global Phenomenon
Crowdfunding itself is going viral around the globe. It seems that everywhere you look, crowdfunding is popping up in a big way. This is top of mind for me as I jump on a plane to Moscow to deliver a keynote address at CrowdMap ’14.
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Can We Rely on the Private Sector to Halt Malaria in Africa?
NGOs are selling discount drugs directly to shopkeepers in hopes of quelling the parasitic disease.
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Scientists grapple with ethics in rush to release Ebola vaccines
Normally it takes years to prove a new vaccine is both safe and effective before it can be used in the field. But with hundreds of people dying a day in the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, there is no time to wait.
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How the private sector can pitch in to help combat Ebola
While health workers on the ground continue to struggle to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United Nations, international nongovernmental organizations and other donors are appealing to the private sector for help.
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