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Ethical Investors Tightening Screws on Emerging-Market Debt Issuers
Prices on Vale and Samarco bonds plummeted by about a third after the disaster. Vale, along with mine co-owner BHP Billiton, is facing a multi-billion dollar claim.
Events like that are increasingly spurring fund managers to look closer at environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks before investing in emerging markets, where polluting industries and accounting issues have often gone unpunished.- Categories
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Trocafone raises $15 million to expand its used electronics marketplace in emerging markets
Latin America is the fourth largest smartphone market in the world, the company said, despite the fact that roughly 418 million people can’t afford to buy one, according to data from the company.
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Press release: 20 Top African Start-Ups Enter World Bank Group Digital Acceleration Program
Selected from a pool of over 900 applicants, these start-ups specialize in digital solutions for the African market, including fin-tech, transportation, health care, education, human resources, and B2B. All companies provide a digital product or service currently available in one or more African markets and show potential to scale across the region.
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Viewpoint: Venezuela’s likely default could teach you a lesson: Don’t invest in dictatorships
If the default occurs, they’ll only be getting what they deserve. And as an added bonus, the spectacle of a Venezuelan default — the first by a major country since Argentina’s in 2001 — would help convince investors across the world that it’s not good business to invest in state-run companies of repressive regimes.
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Report: 52 Million People in Latin America Protected by Microinsurance
More than 8.2% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean had at least one microinsurance policy as of December 2016, with 52.1 million people insured corresponding to USD 420 million in Gross Written Premiums.
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Brazil: The New Home of Do-Gooder Business
Thanks to its success in connecting companies with the producers of fairly sourced raw materials from the country’s far reaches, Rio-based MateriaBrasil has become an anchor of Brazil’s growing B Corporation movement — one of the world’s largest outside the U.S. — which pledges to put society and the planet ahead of strictly making money. Brazil has 103 certified B Corps, more than 10 times the number since certification became possible in the country in 2013.
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SkyAlert: Millions of Mexicans turn to earthquake early warning app after deadly quakes kill 460
Since two massive earthquakes hit Mexico in September and claimed more than 460 lives, an early warning start-up called SkyAlert has doubled its users to 5.8 million, making it one of the country’s most downloaded apps.
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Amid Brazil’s persistent economic crisis, fintech startup GuiaBolso raises $39 million
That GuiaBolso has emerged as a bright spot in the otherwise grim horizon of Brazil’s economic outlook speaks to a broader divergence between the country’s digital economy, which continues to grow, and its offline industries, which have been stumbling since 2015.
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