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Impact Investing’s Next Hurdle: Better Networking
Tess Mateo is a matchmaker. Her job is to interest private investors in projects throughout the world that will improve the quality of life for people and protect the environment. It is not unusual for her to touch down on four continents in the same number of weeks.
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Fighting cancer with cell phones: Innovation to save lives in Africa
In countries such as Tanzania, where nearly 4,500 women die annually from the disease, the problem is exacerbated by an acute shortage of medical experts and a lack of quality screening services, especially in rural areas. But now a group of Canadian and Tanzanian health innovators have joined forces to apply simple and safe mobile technologies to improve cervical cancer screening and thus potentially reduce mortality rates in the East African country.
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Three Things Governments Should Do For Social Entrepreneurship
Today, Europe’s leaders are discussing a $1,000 bn budget framework for the EU, and for the first time, there are budget lines for social entrepreneurship – although you may have to find them with a very large magnifying glass.
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Symbiotics’ impact bond issuance platform lends 10 million dollars to AccessBank in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s leading microfinance bank, AccessBank, received 10 million dollars through MSME Bonds, Symbiotics’ impact bond issuance platform, on November 20, 2012.
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‘Rising Star’ Leila Janah on Fighting Poverty
Leila Janah is trying to find a way to connect women and young people living in poverty to dignified work via the Internet. Her company Samasource, which she founded in 2008, provides free, specialized technology training via 16 centers in nine countries, including India, Pakistan, Kenya, Haiti and Uganda.
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Fantino’s private-sector foreign aid: It can work, if he gets the details right
The world’s poorest, sacrificed to the whims of the almighty market. Charities and non-governmental organizations carrying the water for profitable mining companies. Profits before people. These are just some of the critiques levelled against the federal government’s foreign-aid pivot, recently formalized in an address by new International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino.
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One billion raise a stink
Sanitation is not merely a development wish list, but a fundamental requirement that directly affects people's survival.
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Accion’s Frontier Investments Group and Saama Capital Invest $4 Million in Mortgage Company
Early-Stage Equity to Help Expand Shubham Housing's Mission to Serve Urban Poor
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