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Rhino Bonds: Can Big Finance Really Save Big Beasts?
Since the 1970s, the population of black rhinos, primarily found in South Africa, has plummeted from 65,000 to just 5,500 due to poaching driven by demand from China and Vietnam for rhino horn.
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- Environment, Investing
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Waterfield Advisors to Launch $15M Development Impact Bond for India’s Farm Sector
In a first in the country, Mumbai-based wealth advisory firm Waterfield Advisors will soon launch a $15-million Development Impact Bond (DIB) for the farm sector.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- South Asia
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Funding Beyond the Straight and Narrow: Overcoming Obstacles to Fund a New Breed of Entrepreneurs
A new breed of social innovators is exploring innovative business models and unconventional approaches in India. But since their models are not traditional or proven, most funders are unwilling to bet on them. Anshu Bhartia, CEO of UnLtd India, has a few suggestions for how these entrepreneurs can compete in a funding market that is "traditional, restrictive and governed by rules that serve the conformists." As the leader of an incubator working with Indian entrepreneurs confronting pressing social issues, Bhartia shares her vision of the road ahead.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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More Than 2,300 Cataract Surgeries With Cameroon Cataract Bond
Financially the hospital is performing better than anticipated after its first year and is on track to become financially sustainable within five years.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First-of-its-kind development impact bond launched in Cameroon to save newborn babies
The Cameroon Kangaroo Mother Care Development Impact Bond (Cameroon KMC DIB) aims to reach more than 2,200 newborns with life-improving care. Money will fund scale up of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in Cameroon to help newborns survive and thrive.
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- Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Critics: Give Development Impact Bonds a Chance to Learn to Walk Before They Run
Brian Boland, co-founder of The Delta Fund - a donor-advised fund focused on poverty alleviation and justice reform - pushes back on a recent critique of development impact bonds. That critique, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review by Kevin Starr, took DIBs to task for high costs and questioned whether the investor returns are justifiable. Boland argues that DIBs are in their infancy, investors are already learning a lot from early pilots, and any pioneering new system requires time before it can scale.
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- Investing
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World Bank, Commonwealth Bank team up on blockchain sustainable development project
The World Bank has chosen the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to help organize a new Ethereum blockchain bond denominated in Australian dollars. The bond is projected to raise between $50-$100 million, and proceeds will go towards sustainable development initiatives.
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- Finance
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Are impact bonds and outcome funds a solution to the global learning crisis?
A related and relatively new phenomenon, Outcome Funds for Education, may further help address issues of fragmentation and inequities in funding.
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- Education
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