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World Bank Identifies Threats to Global Health – Says Policy Interventions Can Turn the Tide
A new World Bank report warns that risky behaviors -smoking, using illicit drugs, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets, and unsafe sex-- are increasing globally and pose a growing threat to the health of individuals, particularly in developing countries.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Finding Macro Solutions for Microfinance
Small loans to give backcountry villagers a modest start toward entrepreneurship — the bright idea that brought Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, 30 years after he founded Grameen Bank in Bangladesh — is by now a fading ideal.
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MetLife and Sesame Workshop to Provide Financial Knowledge & Resources to Low-Income Families with Young Children
MetLife, Inc. announced today that MetLife Foundation has committed $20 million over the next five years to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, to advance financial capability among low and moderate-income families with young children throughout the world.
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- Education
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Big Investors and the Young Nudge Morgan Stanley Toward Sustainable Investing
Some of the biggest names in institutional finance are starting to bank on sustainability. Morgan Stanley this month announced a five-year goal of $10 billion in client assets for its “investing with impact” program, which offers investors a range of products targeting social responsibility and environmental sustainability.
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- Impact Assessment
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Impact Investment Performance: Tiptoeing Toward Transparency
The recent release of details about the performance of several impact investment portfolios and funds is another step toward answering the question more and more investors are asking: Is impact a boost -- or a bust -- in terms of financial returns?
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, research
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Socially Responsible Funds: Should You Bother?
On paper, socially responsible funds sound fantastic. You pick a cause, and fund managers funnel your money into companies that further that cause. Everybody wins.Yet while socially responsible funds may help idealistic investors sleep better at night, shareholders may not be getting their money's worth.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Four World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates
This holiday season, Bill Gates wants stuff that doesn’t exist. Not for himself, mind you, but for the developing world. Gates has tons of ideas for products that would improve lives there, if only someone would build them.
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- Technology
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Yes – the sandwich generation can and should work in social enterprises
The generation sandwiched between looking after their children and parents can benefit financially from a new approach
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