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Weekly Roundup: A $350 Million Boost for New Antibiotics, a ‘Brain Drain’ Dilemma and an Impact Investing ‘Ghetto’
With the global health threat posed by antibiotic resistance, it was kind of a big deal this week when a public-private partnership came up with $350 million to encourage pharmaceutical companies to make new antibiotics. We cover that story – along with the challenges of doctor migration, a landmark legal case against fossil fuel companies, and a provocative discussion on women's role in impact investing – in this roundup.
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- Environment, Health Care, Investing
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Impact Investing – A New Player in Protecting Human Rights?
This form of investing channel funds privately to vulnerable segments of the population in need, and it complements welfare and social protection programs by the public sector, as well as other innovations in financing development, such as community banking, microfinance, and mobile banking.
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Viewpoint: Social impact investing: Opportunity or ghetto for women?
Until the notion of evaluating investments by measuring underlying sustainability becomes mainstream, the social-impact investment sector will remain “cloistered,” and so will the women advisers who dominate it, says Matthew Weatherley-White, managing director of the Caprock Group.
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- Investing
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How young millionaires invest their money
Millennials are changing the investing agenda. They don't just want to grow their money: Many Millennials want to achieve social and environmental goals through their investments. It's called "impact investing" and it's not just a buzz word.
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- Investing
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OPINION: Investors in Africa are so focused on the poor that they are ignoring the middle class
African businesses that don’t focus on helping the poorest are being ignored by investors, according to Agosta Liko, a Kenyan entrepreneur and founder of PesaPal, a payments system for online and mobile money.
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- Impact Assessment
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Impact Investing Conference at the Vatican: New Perspectives From Both Sides
The Second Vatican Conference on Impact Investing brought together leaders from the Catholic Church and impact investment communities to discuss the role of impact investing for the poor. The two groups found strong overlap not only in their shared goals of helping the poor, but also in the ways that they measure social impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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IFMR Investment Managers raises $15 million debt fund targeting microfinance firms
Chennai-based IFMR Investment Managers, a wholly owned subsidiary of IFMR Capital, is raising a Rs 100 crore (around $ 15 million) debt fund to invest in the microfinance businesses.
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OPINION: Why Social Investment Is A Threat To Charity Values
In a world where charities are already pitted against each other by funders looking to procure impact, using tools of social investment over grants makes a lot of sense. In a world where we move beyond charity competition into a collaborative one, it becomes much less interesting.
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