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What are the biggest lessons learned when it comes to finding high-quality companies in emerging markets? I posed this final question to our virtual panel of impact investing leaders who recommended teaming up with other investors to providing appropriate financing, making sure to select companies with a core social/environmental mission, embracing creativity, and embedding capacity building into the process.
Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies – Part 3News
On World Malaria Day, a new report analysis the anti-malarial bednet market and concludes that we could get better value, more innovation and even more nets from the same amount of funds.
Buy More and Better Bednets for the Money, Says New ReportBlog Post
Despite rapid growth, healthcare investment in Africa continues to lag well behind other sectors. There is little private investment and/or risk capital available for most of Africa. But according to Onno Schellekens, managing director of the $50 million euro Investment Fund for Health in Africa and co-founder of the Health Insurance Fund and Medical Credit Fund, this can be changed.
NexThought Monday: A New Model for Investment in African HealthcareNews
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), an institution dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa, is partnering with Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHub), Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space dedicated to catalysing creative social technology ventures, in an effort to encourage innovative ideas that could help transform the social technology space in Nigeria.
Tony Elumelu Foundation, Co-Creation Hub in Partnership to Give Social Technology Entrepreneurs BoostBlog Post
Investors in the impact investing space say they want to see more high quality deals and more companies with a successful investment track records that are quantifiably measuring impact. Apparently, billions of dollars of investment capital could be poised and ready if these three issues can be addressed
Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)News
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program of low-cost laptops for developing countries has not led to any measurable impact in academic achievement, according to a recent report.
Study: OLPC Fails Students as a Tool for EducationNews
A microfinance institution has started piloting a micro-health insurance scheme as an 'alternative' mode of health financing for the Bangladeshi poor to help them overcome the cruel cycle of poverty and illness.
Micro-health Insurance Scheme for Poor on TestNews
Vijay Govindarajan is the co-author, with Chris Trimble, of Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, which hits bookshelves on April 10. A professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University, Govindarajan chatted with Fast Company about $2,000 heart surgery, elephant prostheses, and the need for American businesses to, in essence, study abroad.
Business Lessons From A Baby Elephant
