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Lifestores Healthcare Raises $3 Million to Expand Its Pharmaceutical Marketplace Across Nigeria
A handful of healthtech companies bring efficiency to Nigeria’s pharmaceutical supply chain issues; Lifestores Healthcare is one.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Rockefeller, Gates, OSF Launch Fund to Spur Multilateral Development Bank Lending to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new $5 million grant fund to spur reforms in multilateral development banks.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Ghana Invests Over $740 Million Into Clean Drinking Water
Bawumia said providing potable drinking water for rural and urban dwellers has resulted in a reduction of sanitation-related diseases such as cholera.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, SDGs, WASH, water
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Impact Funds Hit $1 Trillion, Defying Anti-ESG Fallout
Impact investing has soared 40% over the past two years, according to a fresh analysis, as more money flows into strategies that actively seek to save the planet and its people.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Republicans Withdraw $1 Billion From BlackRock Due to Its ESG Policies
Multiple U.S. states governed by Republicans are withdrawing state funds from BlackRock’s management, as they disapprove of the ESG investment policies of the world’s top asset manager, the Financial Times reports.
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- Investing
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- North America
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To Stop Climate Catastrophe, Invest in Clean Cooking: Exploring the Lack of Funding – And Signs of Progress – In the Industry
As devastating heat waves and wildfires become an unwelcome part of summer around the world, it's clear that climate change is no longer a future risk we need to prepare for, but an ongoing crisis we need to navigate. To tackle this challenge, Dymphna van der Lans at the Clean Cooking Alliance argues that the world needs to phase out inefficient, greenhouse gas-emitting cooking methods like wood- and charcoal-burning fires – but for that to happen, funders will need to step up. She explores the lack of funding that has typically plagued the clean cooking sector, and discusses some promising signs of growing momentum.
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- Energy, Environment
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Kiva Refugee Investment Fund Lending $1.5 Million to FINCA Guatemala to Support Returning Migrants
The goal is to expand lending to “Guatemalan migrants returning to their home country and locally based entrepreneurs.”
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- Latin America
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U GRO Capital Raises $5 Million in Partnership With Enabling Qapital in India
U GRO Capital, a listed entity that operates a Fintech lending platform for MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises).
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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