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Columbia Pacific Management, a Seattle-based investment firm that runs health-care facilities in various countries, has expanded to Africa.
Expanding to Africa, Columbia Pacific Opens Health Clinic in NairobiNews
GE Healthcare, the $18 billion healthcare technology division of General Electric Co., will provide funding of up to $50 million for global start-ups under its new accelerator five.eight programme, aimed at improving affordable healthcare in emerging markets.
GE Healthcare to invest up to $50 million in start-up accelerator programmeNews
At today’s United Nations Private Sector Forum, the GSMA unveiled the ‘2016 Mobile Industry Impact Report: Sustainable Development Goals’, a ground-breaking study that provides a current assessment of the mobile industry’s impact in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and outlines future actions that will expand and strengthen that impact. The GSMA also announced several industry commitments, including actions to elevate the focus on humanitarian assistance, as well as a partnership with the UN to drive ongoing engagement around the SDGs across the mobile industry and adjacent sectors.
GSMA Publishes Report Detailing the Mobile Industry’s Impact in Achieving the Sustainable Development GoalsNews
The New York Times (NYT) reported on Monday citing unnamed sources that TPG Growth is setting up a social impact fund. It is dubbed the Rise Fund and aims to invest more than $1 billion over time.
Why TPG’s Rise Fund could redefine impact investingNews
A United Nations high-level panel on access to medicines has called for major changes to the way in which research and development (R&D) of life-saving medicines is funded in order to make them more affordable for patients around the world and fight neglected diseases.
UN Calls on Big Pharma to Reduce Cost of Life-Saving MedicinesNews
Customers of mobile money services have expressed mixed reactions to the payments of interests, a day after the process started.
Mixed Reactions in Ghana Over Interest Payments on Mobile MoneyCalendar Event
Business Call to Action Annual Forum 2016Blog Post
More than two-thirds of the populations in the least-developed countries live and work in rural areas, where the proportion of people living below the poverty line is generally double that of urban areas. That makes the development of rural economies critical for poor countries to meet their sustainable development goals. Peter Harlock of VisionFund lays out five imperatives to optimise that development.
Five Imperatives to Help Address the Challenges of Sustainable Rural Economic Development
