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Q&A With Arun Gore Of Gray Ghost Ventures: ‘Social Impact Needs Scale’
Esha Chhabra (@esh2440) chats with Arun Gore, the president and CEO of Gray Ghost Ventures, about the global impact investing movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- scale
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Artha Venture Challenge invites social ventures to access matched funding
Impact investment portal, the Artha Platform, has launched the Artha Venture Challenge (AVC), which will provide ambitious entrepreneurs in India the chance to access up to Rs 25 lakh of equity funding, if matched by the same amount in co-investment.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A Hyperrealistic Farmville To Train The World’s Farmers
Farm Defenders, a Gates Foundation-funded game that lets people use incredibly detailed data (down to soil conditions in specific villages) to help people learn agriculture techniques before they actually start planting.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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UN panel’s post-2015 goals: ‘Promising start’ or ‘lacking a roadmap’?
Just hours after the 27-member U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda unveiled its recommendations to replace the MDGs in New York, the thousands of stakeholders involved in the process began to analyze how the framework will affect international cooperation and the delivery of foreign aid until 2030.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Will Hepatitis C Become A New Battleground Between Pharma And Poor Nations?
Will the new crop of hepatitis C treatments form the next battleground between the pharmaceutical industry, poor nations and patient advocates?
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- Health Care
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Japan Joins Fight Against Neglected Diseases
Tens of thousands of new compounds will be screened for effectiveness against critical illnesses
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- Health Care
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‘Future proofing’ the agriculture sector
Asian economies stand vulnerable to climate change. Some of the most significant impacts are expected to hit the agriculture sector.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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From base of social pyramid, only way is up
Firms serving Africa's poorest paving way for mutual growth
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa