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Women Self-Help Groups in Punjab Struggle To Repay Loans
Allege microfinance institutions charging exorbitant interest
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Kenyan MNO Safaricom Launches 2nd Edition of Spark Venture Fund, Ups Size To $6 Million
Leading Kenyan mobile network operator (MNO) Safaricom has announced the second edition of its Spark Venture Fund, which will invest a total of US$6 million in several innovative Kenyan tech startups.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale, startups
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India’s Solar Tariffs To Decline by up To 10 Percent Over Next Decade
It added that this in turn would result in stronger competitiveness against incumbent fossil fuel alternatives in the country
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- energy access
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Viewpoint: How To Measure a Company’s Real Impact
Accounting for impact took a major step forward in July with our publication of the cost of the environmental impact of 1,800 companies by the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) at Harvard Business School.
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- Impact Assessment
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Press Release: ImpactAssets Clients Lean Into Impact Investing During COVID Pandemic
Impact Investments increase tenfold while grants rise 400% in the first half of 2020 in a show of unprecedented generosity.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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‘Big Oil Has Fallen’: Environmentalists Celebrate Exxon Mobil Being Booted from Dow Jones
Exxon Mobil’s demotion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average after nearly a century is being celebrated by environmentalists as a harbinger of the fossil fuel industry’s demise.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Renewable Energy in Developing Countries Emerges as Growth Area
With oil and gas prices down 30% for the year and fossil fuels becoming less attractive due to sustainability issues, investors are looking elsewhere in the energy sector.
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- Energy
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Analysis: COVID-19 Pushes Social Issues to ESG Forefront
One of the many upheavals caused by the COVID-19 crisis has been some reordering of environmental, social and governance priorities for institutional investors.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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