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How Mobile Tech is Changing Africa’s Landscape to Create Opportunities for Women
For years analysts have said that “Africa is Rising,” but now it’s really happening. With an expanding population and steady economic growth, social enterprise in Africa is today seeing real returns on investment. This “double-bottom line” success — financial plus humanitarian gains — is drawing new attention to Africa to not only advance, but also yield change.
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- Technology
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- impact investing
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Beyond the Pioneer: Getting Inclusive Industries to Scale
Beyond the Pioneer enumerates the barriers to scale that hinder, not just the firm, but the entire ecosystem, including the value chain, public goods, and the regulatory and policy environments.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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For Super-Rich, Investing to See Dramatic Changes
Lots of start-up funding. Crowd-sourced investment ideas. Real-time low-cost portfolio monitoring. An emphasis on environmental and social impact.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Myth of Sustainable Investment Performance Sacrifice ‘Finally Withering Away’
Speaking to Blue & Green Tomorrow after the launch of the Pax MSCI International ESG Index fund, Keefe explained that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors were becoming increasingly relevant to companies’ long-term financial risk and performance.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Impact Investing at a Crossroads: Sustainatopia Impact Conference highlights excitement and concerns about the future of the sector
Despite the excitement surrounding impact investing, it’s clear that the sector is nowhere near big enough to make a dent in the problems the world is facing. As the industry strives to get to the next level, participants in Sustainatopia’s 2014 Impact Conference shared their hopes and insights (and aired a few frustrations).
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Introducing the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance: The group’s seven social lenders collectively lent $360M in 2013
Root Capital and six other social lenders recently announced the launch of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF), an industry alliance committed to promoting the development of the smallholder agricultural financial market. The $360 million collectively disbursed by the seven CSAF members in 2013 is just a drop in the bucket relative to the vast unmet need, but we’re optimistic that it’s the start of something much larger.
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- Agriculture
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Impact Investing and Global Finance: The Big Picture
One of the interesting and important recent developments in wealth management has been the emergence of a group of clients committed to investing with impact across their entire portfolios, meaning they seek to deliver measurable positive social or environmental benefits with every dollar they put to work.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Firms Investing in Social Sector Have deployed $1.6 B in India since 2000
According to a report, the number of foreign investors looking to invest in the social sector has increased.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- South Asia
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