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Social enterprise incubator Villgro invests in three startups
Social enterprise incubator Villgro has invested an undisclosed amount in three social enterprises—OneBreath, Ecozen Solutions and Artoo. Apart from equity, the incubator will provide mentoring, access to network and talent for these start-ups.
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Global Fund: Quash Human Rights Barriers
In honor of International Human Rights Day, the Global Fund made an appeal to break down all human rights barriers to health, a critical factor in the goal of defeating AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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MSF Calls for Scale-Up of “Viral Load” Monitoring to Improve HIV Treatment in Developing Countries
Global Fund and US-gov’t PEPFAR program must use purchasing power to get better prices for viral load tests.
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Global resistance to TB drugs is ‘ticking time bomb’
Increasing resistance to tuberculosis drugs around the world is a "ticking time bomb", says the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Can microenterprises grow through finance?
For some time, microfinance has been a hot topic within the development community. Many researchers and practitioners see it as a way for people to smooth their consumption over time and thus avoid the effects of bad periods.
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Small business financing companies can play much bigger role in financial inclusion in India
For that, there is an immediate need for formation of an independent regulator to formulate framework for sustainable and better functioning of Small Business Financing Companies (SBFCs) that has been doing a wonderful work for promoting growth of small business in India, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha said.
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Bangladesh’s top MFIs widen areas of operation in the social sector
Top microfinance institutions (MFIs), besides their prime focus on microcredit, have widened their areas of services in various social sectors like education, health, agriculture and disaster management
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World Bank: Crowdfunding Investment Market to Hit $93 Billion by 2025
Crowdfunding has come a long way since 2008, when a group of UC Berkeley MBA students launched Indiegogo. It’s now a multibillion-dollar industry growing literally exponentially and worldwide
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