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Investors are beginning to accept that their stock picks can be environmentally and financially successful.
From fad to fixture: how investors are waking up to climate riskBlog Post
Our editors discuss three recent developments in the global development/social business space, including a disheartening new global health crisis, some major impact investing news, and a setback in the mainstreaming of the financial inclusion agenda.
Weekly Roundup: Zika’s Super Challenge, LeapFrog’s Play, American Express’ RetreatNews
In an effort to boost Wi-Fi access in the city of Kampala, Uganda, Google began laying down thousands of kilometers of fiber cables in 2013 as a pilot project.
How Wi-Fi Access Can Improve Health Care in UgandaNews
The stern woman behind the press desk at the United Nations is certain I’ve made a mistake about the person I’m here to see. “Mr. Mark Zuckerberg?” she says. “Who’s he?” He’s an Internet executive, I tell her. He started Facebook. It’s the second week of the United Nations’ General Assembly. Several hundred reporters crowd into the press holding area. Nearby, on the main plaza, heads of state stroll by. In this place, it seems, Mark Zuckerberg might as well be Mark Smith. She checks her dog-eared schedule, then makes a call, enunciating into the receiver: “ZOO-ker-burg. Mark ZOO-ker-burg.” Silence. “Yes, the Facebook guy.” More silence, during which it occurs to me the UN is like the opposite of Facebook. If it had motivational posters on the wall, they’d read: Move slow and break nothing. Finally, she hangs up and turns back to me. Zuckerberg is on the program after all, she concedes, speaking just before German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Inside Facebook’s Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole WorldBlog Post
For the last few months, Andrew Stern has been serving as interim CEO of Convergence, a brand new platform designed to connect and support private, public and philanthropic investors for "blended finance" deals in emerging and frontier markets. The big idea is to bring these disparate players together to back deals that, on their own, would be deemed too risky or complex to chase.
Convergence Looks to Convert Risk into Reward for Global Development FinancingBlog Post
Almost every day, I engage with professionals who are hoping to land a new type of job in a completely new discipline, region or sector. However, in our experience, you’re likely to be most successful at landing a job if you aim for roles that leverage your strengths and then seek ways to pivot into new areas of responsibility. Here are some tips for transitioning from the development, government or NGO sectors to a social business.
The Leap from Social Sector to Social EnterpriseNews
An expert consultative committee of the Indian drug regulatory agency has waived a large-scale clinical trial for a dengue vaccine developed by French drug maker Sanofi. The Subject Expert Committee, which advises the Drug Controller General of India, as part of its Jan 12 meeting said it "recommends for market authorization of the vaccine in the age group of 18-45 years only with the condition to conduct Phase IV clinical trial in time bound manner."
India Waives Large-Scale Clinical Trials for Sanofi’s Dengue VaccineNews
After nearly six years in the making, it took Members of Parliament a single day to pass amendments to the 2004 Financial Institutions Act.
Viewpoint: Amended Financial Law Could Revolutionise Banking in Uganda
