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An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa
The eyes of the private equity investor lit up as he strode across the empty floor of a recently built hospital here. There was not much to see: a stretch of unfinished concrete, and steel bars pushed into a corner.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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ImpactSpace and CSRHub Bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings to Impact Investments
ImpactSpace, the open database for the impact investing marketplace, is bringing CSRHub’s environmental, social and governance ratings into the world of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Weekly Roundup: PSI for Profit, a Slowing ‘Pulse’ in Africa and Medical Tourism on Steroids
The non-profit Population Services International (PSI) announces the launch of a for-profit business in India, sub-Saharan Africa braces for "the lowest growth in more than 20 years," and Obamacare generates some unintended – and potentially exciting – consequences. We discuss these and other issues in our weekly roundup of social business and global development news.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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ImpactAssets Introduces “100 Percent for Impact” Alternative to Traditional Money Market Fund
ImpactAssets announced today the launch of the ImpactAssets Liquid Impact Portfolio, a new 100% impact money market alternative that enables investors to “park cash” while benefitting low-income communities.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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‘A Sweet Spot for Impact Investing’: Omidyar Network’s Roopa Kudva discusses India’s Growing Prominence
There was a surprising amount of tension on SOCAP's panel on impact investing in India, much of it revolving around a simple question: Are these investments making a difference? As one panelist put it, "Just because you're doing it, doesn't mean it's actually helping." Roopa Kudva, a partner at Omidyar Network, sat on the panel, and afterward she shared her views on this question, and on the impact sector's growing prominence in India, in a video Q&A.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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How to Raise Trillions for Green Investments
Saving our planet from the worst effects of climate change won’t be cheap. A new report from the United Nations says that the world will need to mobilize $90 trillion in public and private capital over the next 15 years.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Morgan Stanley Introduces New Tool Kit to Effectively Integrate Gender Diversity Criteria Within an Investment Portfolio
Investors seeking opportunities to effectively integrate gender diversity criteria within an investment portfolio now have access to a new framework to help translate social change and greater gender equality into an actionable plan for investing.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Small-Scale Fishers Get A Big Boost With First-Of-Its Kind Impact Investment Fund
At the Our Ocean Conference, hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington, D.C. today, Rare CEO Brett Jenks and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) CEO Naoko Ishii will be jointly announcing the development of the Meloy Fund for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in Southeast Asia. The GEF, one of the largest funders of conservation worldwide, will be investing $6 million into the fund.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing