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February 19, 2013
A quick, animated history of social investment
This post provides the history of social investment through an animated video. This video seeks to show that the concept of social investment is not as new as the development of its terminology and recognition of it has been. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Social investment: Interview with GIIN’s CEO, Luther Ragin Jr
This post includes a video as well as a transcript of an interview with Luther Ragin Jr, CEO of the Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN). Read it here.
February 19, 2013
Building a social investment market by design
This post looks at the social enterprise market in UK. The UK has evidently become a world leader in social or impact investment. But with a supply of as much as £600 million in capital from disused bank accounts and bailed-out banks, through organizations like the Big Society Capital, an […]
February 19, 2013
Asia Sustainable Investment Review 2012
The Asia region seems to be gaining on sustainable investment practices, no longer behind the industrialized world, as is apparent from data in the Asia Sustainable Review 2012. While ESG investment in Asia, due to lack of reliable measures is still a new concept, it has still become a ‘significant’ […]
February 19, 2013
UNDP chief calls for a permanent focus on NCDs
Helen Clark, UN Development Programme’s administrator conveyed a message to the global development community that the only way to ensure that non communicable diseases are on the agenda of all organizations. Despite the increase of global funding of about 3 per cent, NCDs remain a problem due to the increase […]
February 19, 2013
Novartis makes progress in global fight against leprosy
International pharmaceutical company Novartis recently partook in the celebrations of the one year anniversary of the coordinated effort to eliminate or control 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. The company advanced its goals set as a part of a coordinated and global effort to eliminate or control 10 NTDs, […]
February 19, 2013
Researchers work on developing new HIV vaccines
This post talks about the potential advances and breakthroughs that may be seen in the research for HIV, especially with the launch of MIT and Harvard University’s joint initiative – the mission of Ragon Institute. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Why the world needs ‘tri-sector’ athletes
The world is witnessing the seemingly irreviersible problem of rising healthcare costs, outpaced by economic growth and expenditure capabilities of people. This problem is alike to water scarcity, and access to education, and according to Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey and company, the coming together of business, government […]
February 19, 2013
Afghans flock to India for infertility treatment
War torn Afghans have been forming a part of the migrant community to be found near some of Delhi’s largest private hospitals. Due to this traffic from Afghanistan, a number of private healthcare players in Delhi have been benefitting from what is called medical tourism. Read more here.
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