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The Impact Generation Has Arrived
Imagine for a minute that you can invest in one of two companies:
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Start Small, Stay Small: Can better finance help Latin America’s microenterprises take the next step?
According to the World Bank, 60 percent of Latin America employees work for businesses with five or fewer employees. And its new companies grow at a much slower rate than similar businesses in other middle-income regions. In part 3 of our Impact Investing Insights series, we speak with Venture South’s managing director George Petty about how better finance can help.
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‘Firms should create CSR strategies in sync with their corporate character’
When Harvard Business School's V Kasturi Rangan conducted a seminar on managing corporate social responsibility in Mumbai two years ago, all of the city's top industrialists were in attendance.
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World Bank gives $1.4 mn in grants to 12 social enterprises in the Northeast
The World Bank's Development Marketplace, a competitive grants programme, has given grants worth $1.4 million (about Rs 8.4 crore) to 12 social enterprises in the northeastern states of Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram for development activities.
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Nurturing Startups Trying To Reduce Pollution From Plastic
The problem of plastic pollution is so vast, it deserves a business accelerator for startups focused only on reducing all that waste. Now there is one.
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Something New in BoP Housing: A new OMJ study explores four key business models tailored to low-income consumers
In a study just published by the Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), researcher Christy Stickney highlights several promising approaches to penetrating the BoP housing markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on 11 cases from Colombia, México, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Peru.
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Competition takes toll on mobile money agents’ profits
NAIROBI, KENYA: The huge number of mobile money agents may have played a significant role in growing the mobile money in Kenya but the sheer numbers are also the reason the local agents are making less than their counterparts in the East Africa region.
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The Path Toward a B Corp Law in Argentina
There are currently 100 B Corps (Benefit Corporations) in South America. But in Argentina, there is no legal status for businesses that walk the line between nonprofit and for-profit. A team lawyers provides a blueprint for legislation in Argentina.
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