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NextBillion is on Vacation – Check Out Our Top 10 Recent Posts
With the Independence Day holiday this Wednesday, it's summer vacation time for much of the U.S. - and NextBillion is no exception. Since our editors will be enjoying some time off this week, we won't be publishing new blog content until next Monday, July 9. In the meantime, we've compiled 10 of our most-read recent posts, including some of our more thought-provoking content of the year. We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to bringing you more original analysis and insight from the world of social business next week.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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The State of the Art in Impact Investing: People and Planet Returns in All Asset Classes
The impact investor community Toniic recently released a report on the growing number of Toniic members who have committed to a 100 percent impact portfolio. The 76 portfolios in the report represent $2.8 billion in capital committed to impact – a 9 percent increase from its 2016 survey. Toniic CEO Adam Bendell discusses the trends revealed in the report, and what they suggest about the sector's evolution.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Press release: Opportunity Fund Launches Largest Small Business Impact Fund
Opportunity Fund, a leading Community Development Financial Institution, creates the
largest Small Business Impact Fund in the country that lends directly to underserved
entrepreneurs, helping the California-based organization expand its offerings across the
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- North America
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to Pump $200 Million into Indian Infrastructure Fund
“The $200-million investment is in two phases. AIIB will invest $100 million now and another $100 million in the future,” Garg said. Beijing-based AIIB has approved $4.4 billion of investments of which the largest — $1.2 billion — is in India.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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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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Press Release: MetLife Social Impact Investments Rise to $50 Billion
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) today announced its impact investment portfolio grew to $50 billion in 2017, an increase of 12 percent year-over-year from 2016 to 2017, and MetLife Foundation reached more than six million low-income individuals through the fourth year of its five year, $200 million dollar commitment to financial inclusion.
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- Investing
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Why Silicon Valley’s money can’t solve Africa’s tech problems
“Parachute investing is a problem. If you’re investing in early-stage companies from an airplane, you should consider philanthropy"
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Belgium’s Incofin plans $80-million India Progress Fund
“India Progress Fund will be our first country focused fund,” Incofin’s partner and co-head for Asia investments, Aditya Bhandari told ET.
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- Investing
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