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Us Family Biz Icon Launches Africa Fund
Dr John Coors, fourth-gen chief executive of ceramics company CoorsTek and a member of the Coors brewing dynasty, is behind the launch of an investment group targeting Africa that plans a new approach to investing in the continent.
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Venture Capital Trust Fund signs MoU with GIMPA to establish Centre
Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF) signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the Ghana Institute for Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) to establish a Centre for Impact Investing in the country.
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Where Private School Is Not a Privilege
In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send their children to private school.
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A Microlender Backs Startups to Bring More Than Loans to the Poor
Microlending has lost a lot of its shine in the seven years since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for delivering small loans to help poor women start businesses.
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Ramadorai new chairman of NSDC
S. Ramadorai took over the post from M.V. Subbiah, who was heading NSDC since 2008.
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What is the best way of innovating for social change?
There are many different ways – organisationally speaking – that you can save the world.
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The Social Progress Index:: A new language for development, or 21st century Esperanto?
Therespected Harvard professor Michael Porter, father of the catchphrase "shared value," has come up with the Social Progress Index. His guiding principle: Instead of making any attempt to balance financial metrics, such as income, against social outcomes, such as clean water, SPI simply measures the outcomes.
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Fighting poverty: Getting value for money from foreign aid
When a country is full of food, and exporting it, there can be no famine,” smoulders Hector Malone in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman.
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