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The Philanthropy World is Embracing Impact Investing
Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, philanthropy, SDGs
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Opinion: Adopting the sustainable development goals is a business opportunity for Australia
Business as usual is not an option. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2015, are 17 goals for ending poverty, transforming health and education, improving our cities and communities, addressing gender equity and tackling urgent challenges such as climate change. Collectively, they propose a new development pathway, based on partnership between governments, civil society and business that could transform our societies.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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10 things you need to know about the Better Business, Better World report
The report is an 88-page roadmap to help business leaders understand how the private sector can benefit from the SDGs, and reveals the issues that will present the biggest opportunities for their businesses over the next 13 years.
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- Energy, Environment
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- global development, SDGs
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Islamic finance is making a case for ‘impact investment’
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development of the UN Development Program launched the “Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform,” an institution which seeks to build collaborations between a multitude of stakeholders, including Islamic banks and Islamic finance institutions, that engage in developmental investments in accordance with the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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- Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Foreign aid is being cut, but business will keep fighting poverty
In the past 10 years, private sector investment to developing countries has been growing faster than foreign aid. Indeed, developing countries now receive 27% more foreign business investment than development aid – a trend likely to grow over time. Even the lowest-income countries, as classified by the World Bank, have seen business capital flow into their economies at dizzying rates, with investment increasing nearly nine-fold since 2000.
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- Investing
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World Telecom Day: How data holds the key to sustainable development goals
The world is experiencing a data deluge with millions of devices and things talking to each other. According to one estimate, 90% of this data was created in the last few years only. As Eric Schmidt famously said, “There were 5 Exabyte of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 years”.
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- Technology
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IDB-UNDP report identifies steps to leverage Islamic finance for impact investing
Given that impact investment is growing rapidly and has become an important source of funding the SDGs, a blending with Islamic finance provides a formable partnership that could play a significant role in achieving the SDGs.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North Africa & Near East
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Going for Goals: How to innovate on health sector financing
Achieving this goal — and indeed all of the SDGs by 2030 — requires the cooperation of governments, the private sector and nonprofit actors across the globe. They will also need considerable resources, which is why finding innovative and sustainable financing mechanisms will be critical to their success or failure.
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- Health Care