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How the African diaspora can help the continent achieve the SDGs
With a progressive awareness of the need for a sustainable African development agenda driven by Africans, the African diaspora could provide the other half of the equation needed to turn the SDGs from aspiration to concrete reality.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India has a growing impact investing industry, but can it scale?
India’s impact investing market has grown rapidly in the past few years — the total value of impact investments in India since 2010 has been $5.2 billion, according to a McKinsey report — and $4.2 billion of that is since 2015. In that time, average deal sizes have increased — from $7.6 million in 2010 to $17.6 million in 2016, though the number of investments has stayed between 60-80 a year.
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Hewlett Foundation’s Leader Makes a Case Against Impact Investing
In public speeches and essays, and in an email interview with the Chronicle, Kramer has steadfastly maintained that impact investing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially for the biggest foundations, he argues, impact investing could do more harm than good.
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- Investing
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M-Pesa to offer cash advances to clients
Safaricom users can now pay for goods and services even when they lack enough funds, piling pressure on conventional banks.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Climate Change Spurs McKnight to Go Big on Impact Investing
"One out of every three dollars has mission alignment," says Elizabeth McGeveran, who has led McKnight’s impact-investing program since 2014. No other foundation of McKnight’s size can say that.
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- Environment, Investing
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Why the next big thing in fintech is not mobile payments
The next big thing in fintech isn’t mobile payments – it’s data.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Secure the Caribbean — with a modest addition to the BUILD Act
The BUILD Act’s passage was rightly cheered, with one analysis calling it “the most important piece of U.S. soft power legislation in more than a decade.” The BUILD Act, however, inadvertently leaves the Caribbean out in the cold. This situation, likely unintentional, can be easily remedied with a better understanding of the problem.
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- Latin America
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India likely to surpass U.S to be world’s second largest economy by 2030
India will likely be larger than the U.S. in the same time period while Indonesia will break into the top 5 economies.
- Region
- South Asia
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