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Viewpoint: Investors Need More and Better Data on Sustainability
Measurable results are central to advance sustainable finance – the kind that rewards companies being environmentally or socially responsible.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Press release: IDB Invest provides loan to Mundo Mujer, the largest private microfinance bank in Colombia
The financing allows Banco Mundo Mujer to increase its loan portfolio to support communities with easy and quick access to working capital, strengthening its businesses and productive units.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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Here’s Why TPG Turned Down Vaping Startup Juul
“We had an opportunity to invest early on,” TPG Co-CEO and Founding Partner Jim Coulter told Fortune Tuesday following a Reuters Breakingviews event. Namely, the firm looked into Juul at the start of 2018 but decided against making an infusion over concerns about the morality of such a call.
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- Investing
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Central Bank of Nigeria unveils strategy to achieve 80% financial inclusion
The CBN stated that “the major goal of this revised strategy is to reduce the proportion of adult Nigerians that are financially excluded to 20 percent in year 2020 from it baseline figure of 46.3 percent in 2010.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India sees encouraging rise of green finance
With about 1.2 billion more people expected to live in Asian cities in 35 years, the cities have the potential to attract more than USD 20 trillion in climate-related investments in six key sectors by 2030, according to a recent report by International Finance Corporation.
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- Environment, Finance
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- South Asia
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Press release: BBOXX lands USD 31 million deal with Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers
The deal with AIIM – Africa’s largest and most experienced infrastructure-focused private equity fund manager and a member of Old Mutual Alternative Investments with USD 2.1 billion AUM – will allow BBOXX to install two million solar systems by 2022, bringing electricity to 10 million people in these African countries.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mexico launches major initiative to boost financial sector
"The main objectives of these actions are to increase the coverage of the financial sector and promote liquidity in the stock market, introduce a more efficient payment system for the population, and overall, facilitate and promote savings mobilization, channeling them into productive investments," read a press release from the finance ministry.
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- Finance
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- Latin America
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How Data-driven Strategies Can Improve Impact Investing Outcomes
The Rockefeller Foundation has been designing ways to harness data effectively in order to improve the effectiveness of impact investing. “Data really helps you understand the nature of the problem, and thinking about data ahead of time helps you structure your experiments and your interventions,” said Zia Khan, vice president of initiatives and strategy at the foundation
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- Investing, Technology
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- data, impact investing
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