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PRESS RELEASE: China enters the era of social impact investing
The 13th Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School was on October 31st. The results of a study on social impact investing in China were released for the first time in history. It is the first time that China has formally dispatched a group to attend a social enterprise conference at Columbia University
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- Asia Pacific
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Facebook And Alibaba Will Turn The World’s Poor Into Entrepreneurs. Xiaomi Will Sell Them Smartphones
Facebook and Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) Limited are on a new mission: solve world poverty by helping more than 4 billion people from low-income countries get access to the Internet — and engage in e-tailing entrepreneurship.
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NexThought Monday – Impact White Washing?: When any deal in a developing country with a few generic metrics can be considered impactful
Max Pichulik, who runs an investment accelerator in South Africa, argues that it is way too easy for fund managers to declare themselves as impact investors. Unless we ensure meaningful rating systems, provide adequate education to the marketplace and have clear safeguards in place, Pichulik says that impact investors run the risk of placing capital with marginal impact.
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PRESS RELEASE: Impact Accelerator launched in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Impact Investment Exchange Asia has launched its first Impact Accelerator program in the Philippines, an intensive in-country program designed to accelerate early-stage social enterprises that have high potentials to create positive social and environmental impact at scale.
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Twitter Top Ten – 11-2-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
Our "favorite tweets of the week" feature continues. Check it out. And help us out by keeping a close eye on your feed this coming week and tweeting your favorites our way.
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For Education Investment, ‘The Fix is in the Mix’: At SOCAP14, talks turned to long-term models
What would it take to attract more private capital toward funding for education? It was a key question at SOCAP14, and one that will require a lot more experimentation, writes Wedu’s Mario Ferror.
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- Education
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Asia-Pacific J&J Innovation Center opens with Shanghai HQ
Johnson & Johnson Innovation has expanded its global network of research partnering hubs with the opening of the Asia Pacific Innovation Center headquartered in Shanghai with satellites in Singapore, Australia and Japan.
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PRESS RELEASE: Institutions from Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay win the IDB’s Inter-American Awards for Innovation
Banco do Nordeste of Brazil, Tigo from Paraguay, and FOODSANU from Ecuador have won this year’s Inter-American Awards for Financial andEntrepreneurial Innovation for their excellence in supporting financial inclusion, digital finance, and microenterprise in Latin America and theCaribbean.
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- Latin America
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