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December 29, 2012
10 facts about global health
A compilation about the dismal healthcare facts in the world has been made by the WHO in this post. According to it, about 7 million children die under the age of five, under-nutrition being a cause of at least a third of these, complications in pregnancy account for 15 per […]
December 29, 2012
Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi
This post talks about the initiatives being taken up in Malawi in trying to provide maternal health a boost. A number of the underserved women in the developing world are undernourished, and not fit to have healthy children. This initiative focuses on preventive measures. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
All about the Indian healthcare market
This forms the first part of a four part series which comprehensively explores the Indian healthcare scenario. The first part talks about the challenges in the Indian healthcare market, the second part about the chllenges of reach and scale in rural areas, the third part about dealing with quacks, or […]
December 29, 2012
Learning to love ‘quacks’
According to a WHO projection in 2006, there would be a shortfall of almost 4.3 million doctors, nurses and midwives and public health workers over the next two decades. This makes lack of medical personnel one of the biggest challenges in the world today. While many aid and developmental efforts […]
December 29, 2012
Harvard to create socially responsible investment fund for alumni, student donors
The Harvard University will soon be launching their socially responsible investment fund which will be managed as a separate entity from its endowments. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
UK DFID – from grants to impact investments
UK’s developmental institution, the DFID has been busy implementing a new aid channel – that of targeted impact investments ensuring financial returns, instead of traditional aid. It has allocated US$120.65 million pounds to its Impact Programme, which will support private sector activities with ensured developmental returns. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
Becoming Impact Investment ready
This post outlines the details of IRP, or the Investment Ready Programme which will facilitate the investment readiness of both social enterprises as well as impact investors. This event has been facilitated by HUB Vienna and Social-Impact International. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
US: Investing in social good up by 22 per cent this year
According to the US SIF (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment), the number of clients demanding social as well as financial returns from their portfolio managers has been on the rise. The proportion of assets under SRI investments has increased by 22 per cent compared to the previous year. Read […]
December 29, 2012
Africa: Mobilizing the disapora to invest in Africa
An innovative approach for raising investments in key sectors like healthcare, connecting youth to jobs and more, is being made by attracting the Diaspora Africans in the US, Canada, and UK to invest in AiD’s (Africans in Diaspora) new campaign “New Year, New Aid” campaign. Read more here.
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