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The Robin Hood Tax: A Small Step for Capitalism, a Big Stride for Development
What connects hunger in Africa, people dying for want of medicines or health care and fast-paced global capitalism? A small tax on financial transactions. A new report about computer-driven high frequency trading (HFT), compiled by supporters of the Robin Hood tax campaign, reveals a niche world of millions of transactions each day. The report highlights how HFT threate...
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Impact Capital is the New Venture Capital (Part II)
The first part of this essay laid out the rationale for impact investing, whereby investors can simultaneously create social impact and achieve financial returns. How can we bring it about? First, we need an enabling environment. In the 1970s and 1980s, the venture capital community argued successfully for changes in taxation and the regulation of financial institutions ...
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Bill Drayton receives Prince of Asturias Award in International Cooperation
Oviedo, Spain - June 8, 2011. Bill Drayton, CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in International Cooperation today, Spain’s highest honor and Nobel equivalent. An international jury deliberated over the 25 finalists from 18 different countries who were under consideration for this award, before making the announcement live via satellite. Recipients are awarded 50,000 euros, a specially commissioned Joan Miró sculpture, a di...
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- Ashoka.org
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Social Performance Start-up Fund for Networks to be Launched Soon
The Social Performance Start-up Fund to support national microfinance networks in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, is scheduled to be launched in May, 2011. The project is funded by the Ford Foundation and will be implemented by the Microfinance Center (MFC). The SP Start-up Fund committee is the strategic advisory body for the Fund Management and will provide an opinion on the strategic decisions taken, on service providers, and ensure the accomplishment of objectives. The Social...
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Germany Gives Extra ?14 Million to Fund Child Immunizations; Gates Foundation to Match It
BERLIN - The German government says it is providing an extra €14 million ($19.9 million) in funding for child immunization in the developing world as part of an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Development Aid Ministry says the Gates foundation will match the €14 million funding of projects overseen by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization. It also will match any further pledges Germany makes over the next two years. Billionaire ph...
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Bill Gates: International Community to Miss MDG’s 2015 Deadline
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals can be reached if donor countries keep their commitments to increase aid spending to 0.7 percent of their incomes, but the 2015 deadline will be likely missed by up to six years, U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has predicted . The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation trustee made the remarks in front of the European Parliament’s Development Committee on Tuesday (April 5).
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Turkish Mother of 12 Looking to Expand with Microcredit Success
Ay?e Gams?z, a 72-year-old widow and mother of 12, has been struggling to make ends meet by growing vegetables for the past 35 years. Despite the years of hardships, Gams?z, from the northwestern province of Düzce, has succeeded in saving enough money to send four children to university. Now, however, Gams?z has another reason to be proud after taking home an award in the Personal Struggle Category at the recent Citibank Fourth Microcredit Awards. "After my husband passed awa...
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Give Keynote Address at Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
OXFORD, England, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Skoll World Forum is the leading international platform for accelerating entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues. The theme for the 2011 Forum is ’Large Scale Change - ecosystems, networks and collaborative action.’ The programme covers a wide variety of complex global issues such as water, energy, food security, climate change, peace and security, social equity and eme...
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- Education
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- Europe & Eurasia
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