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When Does Being Socially Responsible Hurt Your Business?
Should entrepreneurs focus solely on growing their business or also be concerned about social causes such as sustainability, women's empowerment, equality or the local economy?
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Students need to be challenged on social innovation, says Microsoft
“Instead of standardized teaching, our schools and our educators need to teach innovation” – Microsoft Malta
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Rwanda: NGO, Micro-Finance Partner to Promote Savings for Education
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES, an international non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Duterimbere IMF, a local Micro-finance institution, has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging residents, especially parents, to save part of their income to educate their children.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aavishkaar makes final close of second venture fund at $94M
The larger fund gives Aavishkaar the ability to write larger cheques and invest across various stages of its portfolio companies.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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Rural Impulse Fund II and Agora Microfinance N.V. take equity stakes in AMK Cambodia
Antwerp/London, 08 August 2013 – Incofin IM’s Rural Impulse Fund II (RIF II) and Agora Microfinance N.V. (AMNV), a microfinance holding company, have both acquired significant minority stakes in the microfinance institution (MFI) AMK Cambodia. This well-established MFI is the country’s market leader in terms of both outreach and its application of social performance research.
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Incredulity turns to praise as malaria vaccine posts positive PhI data
In the 1970s, experiments showed that volunteers developed immunity from malaria after irradiated infected mosquitoes bit them thousands of times.
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Antibiotic apocalypse
The indiscriminate prescription of strong antibiotics for even minor ailments like cold and flu is leading to the alarming rise of bacterial infections that no longer respond to the usual medicine
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- Health Care
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Africa’s Drinking Problem: Alcoholism on the Rise as Beverage Multinationals Circle
In Kenya, depending on whom you ask, John Mututho is either a hero or a villain, but in a country consuming ever more alcohol, he is certainly a household name.
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