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Viewpoint: Moving From A***Hole Investing to Investing
Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of Impact Investment Group, shares three things he doesn’t like about setting an allocation for impact investment and why it’s useless to put “impact” into a single unified bucket of delicious goodness.
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- Investing
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Singapore’s CredoLab to Power Digital Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
CredoLab’s alternative credit scoring solution comes at a critical juncture in the region’s focus on financial inclusion.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Impact Investment Favours Expats Over African Entrepreneurs. Here’s How to Fix That
Village Capital found that 90% of the capital invested in East Africa in 2015-2016 went to a very small group of expatriate-founded businesses.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, startups
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Viewpoint: Opportunity Zones Can Drive Development Of US Renewable Energy
Opportunity Zones give both individuals and corporations the chance to re-invest existing capital gains into Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds (“QOFs”) in order to receive tax breaks for helping fund investment in impoverished areas.
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- North America
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Freak Weather Poses New Risk to India’s Renewables Goals
Extreme weather events seem to have become the latest risk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s renewable energy goal to quadruple solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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Off-Grid Renewable Energy Is Helping Tackle Two of Africa’s Biggest Problems
Renewable energy companies in Kenya account for 10,000 jobs—only 1,000 fewer than the national utility, while in Nigeria the sector employs 4,000 in formal jobs compared to 10,000 employed across the country’s traditional energy sectors.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Two Companies Approved To Run South Sudan’s First Mobile Money Platform, m-Gurush
Theventure is a joint partnership between South Sudan’s Trinity Technologies Limited, a local tech firm, and Zain Telcoms South Sudan.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Titans Linebacker Derrick Morgan Retires From NFL And Launches $200 Million Opportunity Zone Fund
Morgan is taking his OZ investing a step further to ensure it has both a financial profit and positive social impact, or a double bottom line, as it’s known.
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- Investing
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