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PRESS RELEASE: Lighting Science and Global Good to Develop Light-Based Alternatives to Pesticides
Lighting Science Group Corporation and Intellectual Ventures’ Global Good today announced a research agreement to collaborate on the development of next-generation light technologies for pest control.
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Kenya’s Equity Bank Seeks Investment Opportunities within Health Sector
Kenyan-based Equity Bank says it is interested in exploring investment opportunities within the country’s health sector, as it seeks to exploit increasing demand for healthcare in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Moving Africa toward health self-sufficiency
Across Africa, growth rates and the discovery of natural resources are pushing countries toward middle-income status, but their health systems are still too weak for donors to withdraw support.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Bank to boost India’s MSME sector through $500 million loan
The World Bank on Monday approved a $500 million loan for the MSME Growth Innovation and Inclusive Finance Project to improve access to finance for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) working in the manufacturing and services sector at an early stage.
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- South Asia
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A Radio Jingle … Followed by an Economic Transformation
Hernando de Soto, economist and best-selling author, was determined to figure out what was keeping Peruvians in poverty. He quickly found that Peru had a bureaucracy that moved at glacial speeds. His solution? Catchy commercial jingles and a reality TV show featuring the president of Peru.
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- Education
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When Operations Equal Value Creation: Process innovation up and down value chains can leap the ‘voids’ in BoP markets
Business models are important, but in reality they are derived from the aggregation of value-creating processes. Put succinctly, operations = value creation in exemplary social ventures, argues James Koch, of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.
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- Technology
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Good for You, David Brooks: Now, could I please have Thomas Friedman’s phone number?
It’s great that New York Times Columnist David Brooks recently helped catapult impact investing into mainstream consciousness. But to move the impact investing space forward, we will have to look beyond the mainstream to challenge the boundaries of what we’d previously imagined was possible.
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The Role of Skills-based Volunteering in Global Development
In 2014, MovingWorlds placed 79 "Experteers" in 32 countries, donating nearly 7,200 hours (or 899 work days) of their professional time, writes co-founder Derk Norde. By fostering more connections and knowledge exchange between social impact organizations and professionals looking to donate their skills abroad, he says, it’s possible to truly accelerate global development.
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