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Viewpoint: Dirty Money and Development
Dirty money—MNCs’ undeclared profits, the proceeds of corruption, etc.—can play a large role in ending poverty.
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Japanese Drugmakers Addressing Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Not Just Out of Altruism
Japanese drugmakers are developing medicines to treat infectious diseases that have been overlooked because there is little financial incentive.
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- Asia Pacific
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Community Foundations Embrace Impact Investing
A small, but growing, number of community foundations are starting to embrace impact investing in a big way.
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Q&A On Impact Investing In Africa With Issam Chleuh
Africa Impact Group has been identified as a leader in impact investing across the continent, investing in funds, organizations and companies with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact along with financial return.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Assessing ROI in Educational Development: In India, assessment tools are still lacking, but change is coming
In India, there is a growing realization that quality of school education has to significantly improve in India, particularly for underprivileged students. Prachi Windlass at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation says a wider dialogue on applying a robust assessment framework to education in India is needed.
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Curbing the “Impact Impostors”: The growing movement toward transparency in impact investing
Impact investing’s rising popularity has spawned some unfortunate side effects. For instance, as demand for a social component has grown among investors, so have efforts to brand standard equity investments with the impact label – even when their actual impact is negligible. In the final post of his series, Bill Burckart details the efforts of policy makers, regulators and investors to address this issue.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Aavishkar Venture Capital to Raise $400 Million in 2015
Aavishkar, the country's biggest social entrepreneurship-focused venture capital fund, is set to raise $400 million (Rs 2,500 crore) in 2015. This would be the biggest amount raised by any fund focusing on the social sector or impact investing in the country.
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How ‘Desh’ Deshpande Is Helping Indian NGOs Scale Up
Tech billionaire Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande is helping NGOs scale up and sustain philanthropy initiatives on their own steam. His formula for self-reliance is relevance followed by innovation.
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