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LeapFrog Investments backs Petra Trust
LeapFrog Investments has taken a stake in Petra Trust. The business is a pension trustee company based in Ghana.
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Global health 2035: A world converging within a generation
Prompted by deepening concerns over poverty and global inequality, the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, putting forward a series of goals which were meant to be achieved by 2015. Core issues included improving global health, including reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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Impact investing: Making the case for low-margin, high social return investments
Capital from impact investing often acts as a catalyst to commercial capital. For instance, it helps to showcase the viability of new business models and products, and it drives existing enterprises toward improved services and new geographies. But organizations that don’t generate commercially attractive returns often can’t attract mainstream capital. Geeta Goel argues that in these cases, impact capital focused on social impact has a vital role.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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‘Pay for success’ social-impact bonds help train ex-convicts
Social-impact bonds offer investors a more direct connection between the dollars they invest and the impact they have on a social problem.
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Analysis Firms Battling for Pole Position as Impact Investing Goes Big
Big claims were a common theme at TBLI 2013, a sustainable finance conference held in Zurich, Switzerland, this past November. There's a feeling that sustainable finance is on the cusp of going big, and small and large companies alike are lining up to join the race to be the one the industry will turn to for a variety of services, in areas ranging from metrics creation and impact evaluation to data collection.
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The Best of 2013: NextThought Monday – Opening the Curtain on the New 2.0 Era of Impact Investing
Impact investing has not been growing as quickly as many practitioners might have hoped, and knowledge of what does and does not work remains closely held. But in what they bill as "an unprecedented exercise in disclosure," Pacific Community Ventures and its partners are sharing the inner workings of 12 high-performing funds, hoping to spark a new era in impact investing.
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- Education
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Tata Social Enterprise conference – expect the unconventional
Leaders from across the sector gathered to offer their guidance and advice to aspiring social entrepreneurs
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Beyond Bitcoin: some alternative marketplaces lend social empowerment
A variety of companies, like e-Choupal and OneMorePallet, are creating new marketplaces to add value - and boost social and environmental benefits
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- South Asia
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