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Viewpoint: Responsible Investing: PE impact investors should target SMEs in Southeast Asia
There is a concentration of investments in a few sectors such as financial services and energy. Agriculture and micro-SMEs are two areas with high potential in the region.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Asian Development Bank Approves $25M Loan to Support Women-Led SMEs
Access to finance is very limited in Pakistan, with only 21.3% of adults and only 7% of women over the age of 15 having bank accounts in fiscal year 2017, according to available data.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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- financial inclusion, microfinance, MSMEs, SME finance, SMEs, Women
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Surviving the ‘Valley of Death’: A New Funding Database Aims to Help Agtech Companies Avoid Early-Stage Failure
Population growth and climate change are bringing extraordinary challenges to the agriculture sector in emerging markets. But though small- and medium-sized enterprises are essential to addressing these issues, they remain underfunded – particularly in the period before they become profitable (often referred to as the ‘‘Valley of Death’’). Aarno Keijzer at NpM explores these challenges, and presents a free database that NpM has compiled, highlighting funds that can help early-stage agriculture companies bridge this financial gap.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Press Release: Grant Awarded to Establish Aceli Africa, a Data-Driven Financing Facility to Unlock Capital for Agricultural SMEs
According to the World Bank, agricultural growth in Africa is significantly more effective at reducing poverty than growth in other economic sectors. Agricultural SMEs, including farmer cooperatives and food processors, improve livelihoods by aggregating and linking smallholder farmers to markets and generating employment for low-skill workers, particularly women and youth.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Getting Past Doubt: Finding Better Ways for Multinationals and SMEs to Intersect
Developing countries have become increasingly important to multinational companies, with foreign direct investment often outpacing development aid. Meanwhile, the 400 million micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises in these countries are facing a wide variety of obstacles to growth. The new Catalyzing SGB Acceleration initiative, launched by TechnoServe and the Argidius Foundation, aims to find common ground between those two worlds. Juan Carlos Thomas and Annie Shoemaker at TechnoServe discuss the new project.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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Why the Next Fintech Wave in Latin America will focus on B2B
While consumer-focused Fintech companies are still attracting the lion’s share of investments, here’s a look at why the next wave of Fintech innovation in Latin America will focus on solutions for SMEs.
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- Finance
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: Upaya Social Ventures Funds Its Latest Investments from A Recoverable Grant Pool
Upaya raised $2 million to expand its job-creating investments, including an innovative $1 million Pool of Recoverable Grants that was used to fund its latest two investments in agribusiness enterprises.
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- Press Release
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- Entrepreneurship
- Region
- South Asia
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ResponsAbility Investments Backs Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets With $175M
The sum was raised through the issuance of U.S. Dollar dominated-debt securities maturing in 3 years to institutional investors.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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