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Report: Impact Investing Could Entrench Inequality Without Better Monitoring
Several high-profile recent studies argue that impact investors frequently overstate the social outcomes their investments actually generate.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: Temelio and UpMetrics Forge Strategic Partnership to Enhance Grantmaking and Impact Measurement for the Social Sector
The partnership combines two purpose-built solutions to streamline the grantmaking process and harness industry-leading technologies for grant management and impact measurement.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Regulatory Roadblocks are Holding Blended Finance Back: Here are Three Concrete Ways to Address Them
After hitting a 10-year low in 2022, blended finance flows bounced back to a five-year high of $15 billion in 2023. But despite this renewed momentum, Andrew Apampa at Convergence points out that blended finance faces a number of challenges that hinder its ability to scale — including the complex web of policies and regulations that deter highly regulated financial institutions from investing in emerging markets. He discusses these obstacles and presents some promising solutions, as outlined in Convergence’s State of Blended Finance 2024 report.
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- Investing
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IndiGrid Partners BII, Norfund, and Techno Electric to Develop Transmission Projects in India
These projects are expected to support evacuation of 6 GW of renewable energy in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Techno will co-develop two of these projects.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Investors Back $225 Million World Bank Bond For Amazon Reforestation and Carbon Removal
The bond aims to mobilize around $36 million to fund Mombak, a Brazilian company dedicated to reforesting the Amazon.
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Press Release: Upaya Social Ventures Successfully Exits From Resham Sutra, Celebrates Creation Of Dignified Jobs In India’s Silk Industry
Resham Sutra is a New Delhi-based social business dedicated to empowering local artisan communities by providing solar-powered silk yarn production machines.
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- Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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Oorja Closes US $1.5 Million Pre-Series A To Scale Its Farming-as-a-Service Model
Oorja owns, operates and maintains decentralised solar infrastructure at the farm level and sells affordable irrigation and milling services to groups of smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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M&G Invests $100 Million in responsAbility’s Asia Climate Strategy
RespsonsAbility’s Asia climate strategy uses a blended finance structure, combining public funding with private capital.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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