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Banking on Impact: Building the business case for social and environmental due diligence in lending
Conducting social and environmental due diligence can be a challenge, but Root Capital has found that its financial costs are surprisingly low, and its financial benefits surprisingly large. It has published scorecards and methodology that other financial institutions can use to partially avoid the fixed costs of developing their own due diligence tools.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, lending
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Tiny Loans Are Big Business Once Again in India
Lending to India’s poor is a good business once again.
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- South Asia
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From Corner Store to Microfinance
With a master's degree in social work and a Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy, Antoinette Temporiti spent 30 years counseling individuals and families. She specialized in working with young adult victims of sexual abuse and loved her career. But a trip to Africa in 2004, when she was 54 years old, set her on a new path.
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What prompts banks to cut home loan rates in India?
Top three home loan institutions- HDFC, SBI, ICICI Bank - have reduced home loan rates by 15-25 basis points last week to catch borrowers in a fiercely competitive market. Their offerings are only for new loans though.
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- South Asia
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- lending
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Small loans a big help for typhoon survivors in the Philippines
The typhoon affected more than 13 million people, including 5 million children, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Even before the storm, nearly 44% of Filipinos lived on less than $2 day and there are now fewer resources than ever to help those in need.
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- Asia Pacific
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Solving a $2.5 Trillion Problem: Can innovations in credit scoring give credit where it’s due?
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises have a combined credit need of up to $2.5 trillion globally. This need is due to an intractable standoff between lenders desperate to capture this market, and borrowers unable to convey their creditworthiness in the antiquated ways demanded of them. Could credit scoring innovations utilizing non-traditional data ease the standoff?
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- credit scoring, lending
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Colombia to improve capital city’s public transport system with IDB loan
Colombia will improve its public transportation system in Bogota with a $40 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), making its hallmark bus system better as well as cleaner.
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- Uncategorized
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- Latin America
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- infrastructure, lending
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ADB clears $700 mn loan for Indian infrastructure development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $700 million in loans to support the Indian government's efforts to accelerate investment in infrastructure which the country requires to ensure strong economic growth.
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- South Asia
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- infrastructure, lending