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Funding struggle: Can Liberia’s controversial privately-run schools pilot continue?
Some funders are also said to be questioning the program after an independent evaluation released earlier this month showed mixed results for the public-private partnership’s first year. While researchers of the randomized control trial reported impressive learning gains among students, they also raised concerns about the program’s cost-effectiveness and its potential to negatively impact non-participating schools in the country.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Jamie Dimon: The Biggest Lesson We Learned From Investing in Detroit
The private sector plays an essential role in society, and it is a role we should embrace—not just because it’s the right thing to do. It’s good for our shareholders and for our bottom line, too. Business can do well by doing good.
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- Investing
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- North America
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The UN Is Forming An Accelerator To Make Its Sustainable Development Goals A Reality
The new accelerator-like program will convene national and city leaders, businesses, financial institutions, and community development advocates to develop solutions for the SDGs–particularly energy, water, ecosystems restoration, food systems, sustainable cities, and a circular economy–that can scale and apply across national borders.
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- Energy, Environment
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CARE Enterprises Announces Plans to Deploy $30 Million through Investment Structures and Collaboration with World Economic Forum’s Fourth Sector Development Initiative
For-benefit enterprises are hybrid business structures whose primary purpose is to deliver social and environmental benefit. They constitute a fourth sector of the economy, which has been growing at the intersection of the traditional private, public and nonprofit sectors for decades.
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- Investing
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Press Release: IFC, Convergence Join to Support Blended Finance for Health and Education Investment
Convergence and IFC will together fund the platform design, including product offering, with potential for raising as much as USD 500 million for investment and advisory support.
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- North America
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Australia’s decreasing foreign aid budget offers chance for private companies to cash in
A handful of companies are cashing in on Australia's dwindling foreign aid budget, securing billions of dollars to do some of the work the Government used to do itself.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Business co-financing: an alternative approach to realize SDG1
There is significant interest in the donor community in using private sector partnerships to help realise SDG1. Such partnerships have typically focused on donors providing funds to a business. Businesses are asked to put forward a new business activity which will increase household incomes.
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- Investing
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WhatsApp’s Integration of UPI-Based Payments Has Strategic Consequences for India’s Digital Economy
The partnership defies 20th century notions of a public private partnership, and offers a glimpse of the private sector tipping its hat to the sovereign function and prerogative in identifying and authenticating the beneficiaries of a digital service.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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