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MIGA and OPIC team to unlock investments in African agriculture
A new partnership between a U.S. government agency, a World Bank Group member and a private equity fund plans to help about half a million small-scale farmers boost yields and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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World Bank to offer transition support of $3.5 billion to India for infrastructure, education initiatives
NEW DELHI: The World Bank will continue its concessional lending meant for poorer countries to India and has also significantly upped the country's single-borrower limit, looking to provide a helping hand to the new government in taking forward its agenda on infrastructure, skilling, river cleaning and tourism.
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- South Asia
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The experimenters strike back in microcredit research
“GIVE a man a fish”, said Bono, an Irish singer turned philanthropist, “he’ll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime."
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Four in five investors consider sustainability issues – PwC survey
Four in five investors have looked at sustainability issues in one or more investment contexts in the last year, according to research from PwC. However, investors also cited dissatisfaction with current reporting standards.
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- Education, Environment
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Mainstreaming the Movement: Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp discusses the future of impact investing
"Eventually, I think the victory will be when everyone who is investing ... can put their capital into impact," says Toniic CEO Stephanie Cohn Rupp. But can retail investors accurately assess their investments’ social impact? Is it responsible for pensions or IRAs to offer impact options? And which investments should qualify as "impact"? In part two of our Q&A, Cohn Rupp discusses these and other questions.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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NexThought Monday – Can Investing in the Rich Serve the Poor?
Investors are increasingly looking at health care in developing countries as an investable sector instead of one dependent on government or philanthropic subsidy, making it more important to find business models that work to ensure the market dynamics are favorable for investment.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: 4 Ways to Invest With a Conscience
For many people, investing has become more than just a way to make money or plan for long-term financial security.
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In global health, is ‘disruption’ a good thing?
What makes for a sound investment in global health? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing
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