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Press Release: 60 Decibels Raises $8.8 Million in Series A Financing
60 Decibels raises $8.8 million to enable listening at scale for global stakeholder engagement and impact measurement.
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- Global
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Report: Corporate Reporting Evolving Fast but ESG Gaps Exist
It is important that the approach to communicating a company’s ESG performance should evolve quickly to earn the trust of stakeholders, the report said.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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ESG Investing Is Not Sustainable Investing
ESG metrics are important, but you cannot passively rely on them to create a positive end result portfolio.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2021
At the end of each year, NextBillion selects our 12 most-read articles from the previous 12 months, and invites readers to vote for the pieces that impacted them the most. We've counted the votes, and we’re happy to announce our three most influential articles of 2021. We’d like to congratulate the winners and all the contestants in this contest – along with everyone who read and wrote for NextBillion last year. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous 2022.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing, NextBillion Originals
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Vote for NextBillion’s Most Influential Article of 2021
As an open forum for emerging markets business, NextBillion publishes around 150 original, guest-written articles per year, covering enterprises, innovations, challenges and opportunities across multiple sectors and geographies. Each December we select the 12 most-read articles of the past year to include in our "Most Influential Article of the Year" contest. We invite you to vote for the article that impacted you the most in 2021. You can vote up to one time per hour during the two-week voting period, which runs from Dec. 20 to Jan. 2.
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Press Release: DAI Acquires International Asset Management Firm, MicroVest
Acquisition in high-growth ESG/impact investing arena enhances DAI's ability to spur investment in emerging and frontier economies
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India Affordable Housing Offers $0.62 Trillion Investment Opportunity in Next 5 Years
India’s affordable housing offers funding opportunities worth $0.62 trillion for private funds over the next five years in the backdrop of the government’s push for this segment. However, it is yet to become a major theme for the funds in the country with very few private equity funds dedicated to financing affordable homes, said industry experts.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Why The OG Of Impact Investing Won’t Stop
When Jacqueline Novogratz started Acumen in 2001, the idea of “impact investing” was not well received by traditional financial firms. Today, Acumen has invested more than $135 million in more than 100 social enterprises worldwide and has shaped a model that’s been adopted by even the most adamant naysayers.
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- Investing
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