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Africa’s Innovators Say Their Scrappy Skills Are Needed to Fix an Unlikely Problem—Politics
More often than not, bad policies rather than bad luck have hindered the potential of these innovations and their ability to help more people.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, public policy
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Mobile Money Growth Slows at Last in Ghana
After seven years of phenomenal growth as a payments platform in Ghana, the increase in mobile money (MoMo) users and usage has begun to slow giving indications that this transformational payment platform, in its current form, may be approaching maturity.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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NGOs Ordered to Retract Report Critical of Microfinance in Cambodia
Government officials and MFIs were quick to dismiss the report, noting that interviews were only conducted in 10 communes in the provinces of Kandal, Kampong Cham, Tboung Khmum, Prey Veng and the city of Phnom Penh.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance, NGOs
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Press Release: UNDP Launches Standards to Guide Private Sector in Achieving SDGs
The UNDP Practice Standards for Private Equity provide practical guideposts that make it easier for the private sector to operationalize the SDGs and shorten the runway from interest in to adoption of good impact practice.
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- global development, SDGs
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Do ‘S’ and ‘G’ Really Drive Returns? Investors Lack Confidence in Criteria
While there is growing public awareness around climate change, resource scarcity, social injustice and global population growth, investors have become increasingly focused on only one of the three key criteria attached to socially responsible investing.
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- Environment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: Sustainable Investing Turns Out Not To Be As Popular As The Hype
Millennials are values-driven, environmentally conscious and financially savvy, we are frequently told. And yet a host of recent studies show that millennial money does not always follow their mouths.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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UBS Invests $225M in KKR Global Impact
The UBS fund-raising, from its global private client base, nudges the global wealth management firm closer to a commitment to raise US$5 billion within five years to address the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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- Investing
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Apple to Launch New Low-Cost iPhone in 2020 to Win Customers in Emerging Markets
The new, cheaper iPhone could boost sales for Apple next spring, when the life-cycle of new flagship iPhones -- scheduled to be unveiled Sept. 10 -- would naturally begin to slow.
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- Technology
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