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East Africa Emerges as Global Hub for Impact Investing
Investments focused on fostering social or environmental goals are playing an increasing role in East Africa, which a new report says is a global center for so-called impact investing.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Wall Street not giving up on U.S. social impact bonds
Wall Street firms like Deutsche Bank , Santander Bank and Bank of America are still interested in backing U.S. social impact bonds, despite the failure of the first such initiative.
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- Impact Assessment
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OPINION: We Need to Prove Impact Investing Makes a Difference
While measuring impact is complicated, investors, grant makers, and nonprofit organization need to have some way to assess, manage, and communicate their real impact.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Social Impact Bonds Are Coming to the Tropics
Recent developments indicate that Latin America may become a robust new frontier market for social impact bonds, with a rich set of multiple-player ecosystems.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Village Capital Announces World’s Largest Peer Selected Venture Capital Fund
VilCap Investments New Fund Continues Using Peer-Selection Model to Support Entrepreneurs Solving the World's Most Pressing Problems.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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GE in $14.7M Vows to Build EA Healthcare Skills
Ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, announced a series of new commitments aimed at addressing some of the most critical health challenges in East Africa through a sustained focus on skills development and capacity building.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Impact investing could help plug $2.5 trillion funding gap for development
Socially responsible investment can help tackle poverty, hunger and climate change. Can the fragmented industry overcome its barriers to becoming a real force for good?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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GE to Launch World-Class Healthcare Training Institute in Nairobi
General Electric Company has announced it is at an advanced stage to launch the first-of-its-kind in Africa institute dedicated to training healthcare specialists and technicians. The GE Healthcare Skills and Training Institute will be located in Karen, Nairobi and is set to open its doors to practicing healthcare professionals and graduate students towards the end on 2015.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing