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Viewpoint: Impact Investors are not Funding the Patagonias of Tomorrow—and That’s a Problem
By creating a sense of shared identity, a “cool factor,” and sensitizing parka buyers to technocratic topics like supply chain transparency, Patagonia has transformed the conversation around environmentalism and made it a defining part of many people’s identity. That shift is incredibly hard to quantify and to value in dollars and cents .
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- Environment, Investing
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Meet the folk hero of Davos: the writer who told the rich to stop dodging taxes
“It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water, right?” Bregman said. “Just stop talking about philanthropy and start talking about taxes. … We can invite Bono once more, but we’ve got to be talking about taxes. That’s it. Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bullshit in my opinion.”
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The Rural Credit Rush in India
Data released by Microfinance Institutions Network, a national body for non-banking finance company-micro finance institutions (NBFC-MFIs), shows that NBFC-MFIs, which focus on lending in rural India, account for the largest chunk of the loan portfolio of the microfinance industry.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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Yellow Door Energy Raises $65M for C&I Solar in the Middle East and Africa
The funding injects capital into commercial-scale solar, which has languished in the region as massive auction-based projects boom.
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- Energy
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- renewable energy
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Is North Korea Moving Toward a Cashless Society?
According to a Seoul-based online newspaper Daily NK, some North Korean people are apparently using mobile phone credits as currency and a means of commercial transaction.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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The Rise Fund Spin-Off Marks Growth of Impact Investing
“A lot of what happens with impact investing and philanthropy is people measure afterward,” says Chris Addy, a partner at Bridgespan. The IMM is a metric “to quantitatively account for” social or environmental impact before an investment is made, he says, “with a goal being, you can actually look at hard numbers.”
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Ugandans continue to boycott OTT tax, transact less mobile money
Regarding mobile money transactions, while the amount of money deposited in digital wallets has grown, people have reduced on the number of transactions they make.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fintech leaders debate the future of crypto at Davos
While programs like bitcoin likely won’t be taken up by large governments or financial organizations, there are other applications for blockchain that could prove worthy.
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- Finance, Technology
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- blockchain, cryptocurrency, fintech
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