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Visa to Invest $1 Billion in Africa to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Visa has pledged to scale operations, deploy new innovative technologies, deepen collaboration with partners and advance innovative and inclusive economies across Africa.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: BlueMark Publishes Framework to Bring More Clarity to Impact Reporting
BlueMark's framework is designed to evaluate the completeness and reliability of impact reporting prepared by fund managers for their investors.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: At U.S.-Africa Business Forum DFC Announces Active Commitments in Africa Top $11 Billion
DFC announced $369 million in new projects including in health, energy and food security.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) Closes the Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 5 – the Fifth Issuance in the Women’s Livelihood Bond™ Series and the World’s First Orange Bond
The US$50 million IIX Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 5 is the first sustainable debt security in the market issued in compliance with the Orange Bond Principles and is expected to empower ~300,000 women and girls across Asia and Africa.
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- Investing
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- Global
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The Link Between WASH and ROI: New Research Shows How Investing in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Benefits Both Employees and the Bottom Line
There are clear links between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and workplace productivity: WASH facilities improve worker health and wellbeing, boosting productivity and business performance. But as Kelly Parsons at WaterAid America explains, there has been a lack of research on how much WASH interventions really impact the bottom line of businesses in emerging markets. She shares results from a new WaterAid report that assessed the ROI of WASH investments at several businesses in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Tanzania, and discusses how to maximize the impact of these interventions.
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Press Release: Creation Investments Closes Fifth Impact Fund with More Than $270 Million of Capital Commitments
Creation Investments Capital Management announced the final close of Creation Investments Social Ventures Fund V (Creation V).
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- Investing
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- Global
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Press Release: TriLinc Global Secures $50 million in New Funding Through Blue Orchard and KFW DEG Investment Group
This investment will be dedicated to financing growth-stage, small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”) primarily in select developing economies.
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- Investing
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- Global
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India Wants to Leverage Its Stock Market for Social Impact. Will It Work?
India has approved the setting up of a social stock exchange. Experts say it will help fill glaring gaps in the country’s spending on socio-economic development.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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