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The rise of Africans Investing in Africa (AIA)
Foreign firms are not the only ones heavily investing in Africa’s numerous opportunities, shows the “Africa attractiveness survey 2013, getting down to business” published by Ernst & Young (E&Y). Increasingly, Africans, who were previously Missing In Action (MIA), are becoming Africans investing in Africa (AIA). Investments range from individuals in Africa, the diaspora, the private sector, governments, multilaterals and even social enterprises.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Sustainable investment performance criticisms ‘out-of-date’
Arguments that sustainable investment approaches are too simplistic and don’t offer competitive returns have been labelled as “out-of-date” by Kevin Parker, chief executive of Sustainable Insight Capital Management.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Community Foundations: What It Takes to Become Dynamic Hubs of Local Capital
What is preventing these anchor institutions from realizing their potential? What exactly is that potential, and how can community foundations shift to an impact investment strategy that really makes a difference to community success and resilience?
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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One-Stop Site Paints A Clearer Picture For Impact Investors
Sure, the impact investing and social enterprise world is thriving. But it’s also disjointed and often confusing, with a variety of groups, startups, investors, schools, conferences, and even basic terminology.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Operation HOPE and the New York Stock Exchange Partner to Empower Youth Entrepreneurs
HOPE Business In A Box Crowdsourcing Website To Spur Funding for Youth Businesses, Advertising leader BBDO, NYC will help drive "Taking Every Kid Public," a media campaign to encourage public and private investment in youth business ideas; Gallup onboard.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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The social impact bond wars
Social impact investing sounds like an innovative way of uniting private investors, nonprofits and government to deliver social services with demonstrable outcomes. But who’s profiting from that financing model?
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- Impact Assessment
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Weekly Roundup – 2/22/14: At FLII building a collaborative flock to complex solve problems
Ramon Marmolejos ended an uplifting presentation on Day One of the Latin American Impact Investment Conference (which goes by the Spanish acronym FLII) with a big picture of what looked like a million starlings.
“There is not one bird leading the flock,” said Marmolejos, executive director of Emzingo Group, which provides a leadership training program combined with social impact consultancy projects in emerging markets. “How do we create those (economic) systems to have these sorts of flocks?”- Categories
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- impact investing
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African Angel Investors: Creating an ecosystem
Angel investor circles are notably absent in most African capitals. And there are not many formal structures where one can gain this kind of support - especially for social and BoP-focused business ideas. Tara Sabre Collier discusses the challenges and opportunities in developing Africa’s angel investing ecosystem.
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- Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise