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Future Returns: Stop the Spread Joins ImpactAssets to Battle COVID-19
In the early days of the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S., Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express, and Rachel Romer Carlson, the CEO of Guild Education, wrote an opinion piece calling on the nation’s business leaders to directly address the widespread, critical needs raised by the crisis.
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- Coronavirus
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Amid COVID Crisis, an Appeal to Facilitate Migrant Remittances
More than 200 million migrants across the globe send remittances to their home countries, many of them on the African continent, and that means some 800 million family members depend on them.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- migrants, remittances
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Financial Inclusion in the Wake of COVID-19
Lack of access to financial tools—like credit and savings accounts—inhibit socio-economic mobility for individuals living in poverty across the globe. For approximately the past 40 years, there has been a movement toward financial inclusion for emerging markets such as those found in sub-Saharan Africa, but the progress made thus far is now facing a grim outlook due to the global coronavirus pandemic. In this post, we will explore imminent threats posed to financial inclusion that are anticipated to trickle down as the effects of COVID-19 continue to be felt around the globe.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Fintech Funding in Asia Suffers Under Coronavirus Impact
A lack of mega funding rounds and India heavily scrutinizing inbound capital have made for a dramatic quarterly drop for fintech funding.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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With $715B in AUM, Impact Investors Stay the Course, Despite the Pandemic
Amid a backdrop of a global pandemic and protests against brutal treatment of African Americans by police and systemic racism, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) just produced its 10th annual survey of the market.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Investing
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Viewpoint: The Aid Sector Must Do More to Tackle Its White Supremacy Problem
Racism is embedded in structures and power dynamics, so we should logically conclude that we are not immune
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- Finance, Health Care
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Viewpoint: The Day After COVID-19 and Saving Emerging Markets
The world is facing a simultaneous health and economic crisis that has spared no one. There won’t be winners in this pandemic and the related halt in economic activity, but some countries will suffer more than others. Emerging markets will lose more than the rest.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- refugees
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Viewpoint: Story From People the Crypto Community Needs to Stand up and Fight Racism
Robert Greenfield is the CEO of Emerging Impact, a benefit corporation that supports NGOs and government agencies to leverage blockchain technology in social protection. Previously he was head of Social Impact & Diversity Programming at ConsenSys.
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- Coronavirus, Education, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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- North America