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How Social Enterprises and Impact Investors Can Move the Needle to Achieve the SDGs
Betting on social entrepreneurship to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs makes sense from an impact and a financial return perspective, but the sector requires both financial and non-financial support. To put it simply, entrepreneurs need to unlock three doors: finance, market and talent.
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- Investing
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- data, impact bonds, impact investing, innovation, scale
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Why Zuckerberg, Gates And Omidyar Are Investing in Fintech for the Poor
According to a report published in early September, Facebook is currently considering acquiring mobile money giant M-Pesa that launched in Kenya in 2007. While the news is not yet confirmed, it could be a sound deal for Facebook in terms of their presence in the sphere of online-remittances (what Facebook Messenger and other messengers are trying to develop right now) and projects like Internet.org to provide people from unbanked and emerging markets with access to digital services, which Zuckerberg has promoted a lot in the past.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, impact investing
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Why One Indian Entrepreneur Is Investing In Smart Villages, Not Smart Cities
Varun Chandran grew up in a village in rural India. Till his late teens, he didn’t know what the Internet was. Now, he’s running a startup, Corporate360, that works with IT clients around the world. The global community, he says, should invest in smart villages as much as they are in smart cities.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Eaton Vance Dives Into Social-Impact Investing With New Acquisition
Eaton Vance has agreed to acquire the assets of the impact-investing firm Calvert Investment Management, a move that would give it a large presence in the growing field of socially and environmentally responsible investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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How We Can Support Bottom-Of-The-Pyramid Entrepreneurs, Like Trash Sifters
Across the developing world, enterprising people are sifting through garbage bins to build small businesses through recycling. It is in the informal economy, yet they have developed an economic system. This “waste economy” is providing new opportunities for people like Vusi Memela.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Not just for profit – but for survival’: CEO Amit Bouri discusses the GIIN’s bold call for all investors to tackle the SDGs
The Global Impact Investing Network launched an audacious campaign last month to mobilize investors behind the Sustainable Development Goals. Declaring that “this investment is not just for profit – but for survival,” GIIN CEO Amit Bouri asked that “every investor not already involved make at least one SDG-focused impact investment” – and called on them to start immediately. We spoke with Bouri about the challenges and opportunities that will arise if the investing community heeds the call.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Quark Venture, With Help From China, Sets Up $500M Life Sciences Fund in Canada
Investment co Quark Venture and China’s GF Securities are setting up a global $500 million life sciences fund in what the pair are describing as the largest of its kind in the country.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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On the Podcast: What’s next for the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership? An Interview with CEO Mark Gunton
In the latest NextBillion Podcast, we chat with Mark Gunton, CEO of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. This is a pivotal time for CGEP, as its connection to the Clintons has brought intense scrutiny from the media and politicians during this presidential campaign. In our wide-ranging discussion, Gunton discusses the election's potential impact on CGEP, and talks about its approach to scaling enterprises, some mistakes it made early on, and his concerns about how social entrepreneurship is practiced today.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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