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Weekly Roundup: A Different Kind of Pivot in SE Asia, a Surprising Collaboration in India and South Africa’s Sweet Move
Among the discussion items in this week's Roundup: the bumper crop of social enterprises in Southeast Asia; India's uphill climb toward financial inclusion; some mixed news about microfinance; South Africa takes action against obesity; and Sisu's carefully planned success.
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- Uncategorized
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Blackrock: Climate Change Is Going to Move a Huge Amount of Money and Not Enough People Are Paying Attention
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with almost $5 trillion (£3.7 trillion) in assets, said that all investors need to factor climate change, and the investment needed to halt it, into their future risk-assessments.
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- Environment, Investing
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Impact Investing in Latin America Takes Off
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), in partnership with the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) and LGT Impact Ventures, released a report today on the growing landscape of impact investing in Latin America.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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Closing the $2.5 Trillion Gap: How blended finance can help achieve the SDGs
The UN estimates it will take $3.9 trillion a year to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Based on current global development spending, that implies an annual funding shortfall of $2.5 trillion. Convergence describes how blended finance can bring together private and public investors to fill that gap.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Billion dollar funding package agreed for universal health coverage in Africa
The World Bank and the Global Fund will invest $24bn in Africa over the next three to five years in order to accelerate universal health coverage across the continent. The bank and the fund, which works to tackle AIDS, TB and malaria, announced the funding at a Japanese-backed conference on African development in Kenya last week.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PPP Model Can Make India One of Top 5 Global Pharma Innovation Hubs
New Delhi: To push India into top five pharmaceutical innovation hubs by 2020, the government is preparing for multi-billion dollar investment with 50 per cent public funding through its Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to enhance innovation capability, reveals the joint study of Assocham and TechSci Research.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Markets-Based Approach Can Help Solve Global Water Scarcity
As cities grow and farms expand, many rivers and lakes are being dried up by water diversions.The Nature Conservancy is now working with environmentally-minded investors to buy back some water for nature. That story is told in a new report released today titled “Water Share: Using water markets and impact investing to drive sustainability.”
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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BlackRock Launches BlackRock Impact Bond Fund
BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Impact Bond Fund (‘the Fund’), a mutual fund that aims to generate competitive financial returns while investing in measurable social and environmental outcomes.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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