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Carlyle Breaks From Pack, Plans Impact Investing Across Firm
It was a curious moment last year when Carlyle Group Inc., once famous for bold bets on defense contractors, hired one of the more prominent names in socially responsible investing.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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With AI learning and recycled soap, social businesses step in as coronavirus spreads
With schools and offices shut across Asia, social enterprises are rushing to tackle problems ranging from a shortage of face masks to distance learning.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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AWS partners with Kenya’s Safaricom on cloud, consulting services
Amazon Web Services has entered a partnership with Safaricom — Kenya’s largest telco, ISP and mobile payment provider — in a collaboration that could spell competition between American cloud providers in Africa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sokowatch Raises $14M to Digitize Africa’s Informal B2B Supply-Chain
Informal retail is still king in Africa — even with the emergence of shopping malls and well-funded e-commerce ventures, such as Jumia.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce, startups, supply chains
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Press Release: Convergence Grantees Mobilize $550 Million Towards Blended Finance for Global Development
The Design Funding program awards grants to design blended finance solutions that attract private capital to global development at scale.
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- Press Release
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- Finance
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JP Morgan Chase — the Oil Industry’s Bank of Choice — Will Withdraw Support for Some Fossil Fuels
It will put restrictions on financing new coal-fired power plants, phase out “credit exposure” to the industry by 2024 and stop funding new oil and gas drilling projects as part of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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- Environment
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Senegal’s New Start-Up Laws to Favor Women Entrepreneurs
According to the project manager at Senegal’s $50 million state fund for start-ups, Thierno Sakho, the law will unleash the talent of young entrepreneurs to have a real social impact.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy, startups
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ESG Investing Is a ‘Complete Fraud,’ Chamath Palihapitiya Says
ESG investing — or strategies that take a company’s environmental, social and governance factors into consideration — is growing in popularity, with investors increasingly prioritizing these metrics.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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