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Interview: Can Business Solve Global Problems? Lessons From Abraaj
Devex spoke with Simon Clark, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who covered the story and recently co-authored a book about it, titled “The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale.”
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: The Thorny Truth About Socially Responsible Investing
It’s easier than ever to invest ethically — or, at least, to be told by marketers you are. Whether you’re actually doing it is harder to figure out.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Analysis: Google’s $1 Billion Africa Investment Sparks Tax Debate
Google's plans to invest $1 billion in Africa's tech infrastructure and talent over the next five years has sparked a debate over big tech's tax obligations.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Social Stock Exchange is Coming: Key Considerations to Maximize its Impact
India faces an estimated annual financing gap of US $565 billion in achieving its SDG targets. But while impact investment in the country is growing, it is still nowhere near those levels – and Indian social enterprises face substantial financing gaps of their own. Manali Jain at MSC and Mohit Saini at Tufts University Investment Office explore how a social stock exchange could help address this need, discussing India’s ongoing efforts to establish such an exchange, how it can benefit both social enterprises and impact investors – and how the government can maximize its success.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Google Sets up $50 Million Fund To Invest in African Startups
Google plans to invest up to $50 million in African early- and growth-stage startups via its Africa Investment Fund, ramping up efforts to support more businesses on the continent.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DPI Raises One of the Largest Africa Funds at US $900 Million to Invest in Innovation-Led Companies
ADP III will invest in established and growing companies in industries that benefit from Africa’s fast-growing middle class and the increasing digital transformation of the continent.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- ESG, impact investing, SDGs
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Optimizing Results-Based Financing for Off-Grid Energy: Why Localization Can Provide a Pathway to More Effective Investment
Leading investors across the energy access sector have embraced results-based financing (RBF) as a key mechanism to unlock private capital for small-scale solar and mini-grid businesses, and to advance the world toward universal electrification. But according to Audrey Desiderato at SunFunder and Martijn Veen at SNV, the remote design and management of RBF programs increases the risk that these funds will exclude local actors and innovation. They share findings from a recent white paper exploring the need for more localization in results-based financing for off-grid energy.
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Sun Exchange Secures $2.5 Million Convertible Note Financing
The latest investment enables Sun Exchange to continue scaling its success using its crowd-based solar leasing platform to facilitate solar power for small-to-medium organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa,
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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