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Tide turns for Belu as ethical water goes global
Belu boss Karen Lynch has taken the social enterprise from losses of £1.9m to a fast-growing brand, which generates over £500,000 for WaterAid
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Vatican Conference examines how impact investing can serve the poor
(Vatican Radio) A two-day symposium in the Vatican this week is examining “impact” investing and how it can serve the poor. Entitled “Investing for the Poor”, the conference (from June 16-17) is being jointly sponsored by the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace, Catholic Relief Services and the Mendoza College of Business from the University of Notre Dame.
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D-Lab Scale-Ups awards $60,000 to three MIT social entrepreneurs
Sidhant Pai, Zehra Ali, and Matthew Orosz to receive funding and mentorship over 12-month fellowship.
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Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
Imagine what the world would look like if impact investing had the same mainstream acceptance as value investing?
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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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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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