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Impact Investing Must Hold Chinese Companies to Same Ethical Standards
As China stocks gain foreign investors, their ESG impact should be assessed lest global investors practice hypocrisy.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: How China’s e-commerce playbook can help emerging economies transform
Emerging markets, like China’s, have the advantage of a sizeable young population that is highly adaptable, if not already at home in the mobile digital era. Better yet, by learning from US tech leaders, emerging markets will have the best of both worlds
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce
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China may overtake the US with the best AI research in just two years
Previous studies have shown that China already produces a larger number of research papers mentioning AI terms like “deep learning.” But it has always been difficult to ascertain the quality of that research.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Viewpoint: Why investing in women and girls will take off in 2019
Bart Édes of Asian Development Bank writes about the growing body of evidence suggesting that empowering women is critical to boosting global prosperity.
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- Asia Pacific
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Report: Over 80 percent of social investments in Myanmar are in microfinance
Among the goals of the forum is for AVPN to influence investors’ portfolios more deeply in order to help them increase the impact of their work. During the forum, AVPN also released its Social Investment Landscape in Myanmar Report.
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- Asia Pacific
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Sustainable Finance Is Growing in the World’s Worst-Polluting Country
Being an impact investor in China isn’t as lonely as it used to be, says Zhang, whose firm has made or facilitated more than $200 million in China-focused environmental and social investments over the past decade. They include projects to develop clean refrigeration technology and to convert agricultural waste into cooking charcoal.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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The Chinese New Year is a mobile cash bonanza
Baidu, known as China’s Google, offered a whopping 900 million yuan ($133 million) in cash prizes on Lunar New Year eve. The search giant partnered with CCTV New Year’s Gala, the most watched entertainment show in the world.
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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- digital payments, fintech
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Financial services yet to spur economic growth in Indonesia
While Indonesia has seen its credit productivity increase, stakeholders lack a comprehensive understanding of the sector, hence the sluggish loan disbursement in recent years, the study says.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific