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Creation Investments Sets up India-Focused $100 Million Debt Fund
Global impact investor Creation Investments Capital Management LLC has set up a debt fund in India, for which it will raise $100 Mn to invest in the country.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: G7 Leaders Commit US $ 4.3 Billion to Finance Global Equitable Access to Tests, Treatments and Vaccines in 2021
Commitments made at today’s Virtual G7 leaders meeting hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and at the Munich Security Conference later in the day, signaled significant progress in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic with an important underscoring of the need for global equity in access to test, treatments, and vaccines.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Renewed U.S.-India Climate Cooperation
Mobilizing Foreign Capital for a Green Transition in India
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- Energy
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Press Release: ImpactAssets’ Tenth IA 50 Impact Fund Listing Reveals Growing Market and Innovative Managers
Industry’s first publicly available, searchable resource of impact investing fund managers sees record number of applicants and assets, reflecting the innovation and exponential growth that the IA 50 has helped to spotlight over the past decade.
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- Investing
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Philippines Offers Nurses in Exchange for Vaccines From Britain, Germany
The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- employment, vaccines
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Press Release: $1 Million DFC Equity Investment in Kasha Global Inc. Supports Women’s Health in East Africa
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) today announced the disbursement of a $1 million equity investment in Kasha Global Inc., an e-commerce company that provides women’s health and personal care products to customers in Rwanda and Kenya, alongside investments from Finnfund and Swedfund.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce
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Angola Receives US $250 Million From World Bank to Enhance Electricity Access
The government of Angola has received US$250 million from the World Bank to improve the operational performance of the electricity sector utilities and increase electricity access in selected cities of Angola.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- energy access
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[Updated] Erudifi Raises US $5 Million Series A to Grow Its ‘Study Now, Pay Later’ Model in Indonesia, Philippines
[Updated] Erudifi Raises Us$5m Series a to Grow Its 'Study Now, Pay Later' Model in Indonesia, Philippines
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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