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Building Impact Investing Momentum in Africa
Earlier this month, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation launched the Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF) to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable people throughout Africa. The fund was announced at the Impact Investing in Africa: Accelerating the Industry Regionally forum in Cape Town, South Africa. The fund will target projects that seek to enable capital solutions, foster entrepreneurial ecosystems and promote the impact investing industry infrastructure.
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- Investing
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- impact investing
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Avoiding the Generation Gap : Young people and financial access, going beyond mobile money
For many young people, owning a phone is aspirational and closely tied to their self-esteem. The surge of young people with phones or phone access and the emergence of low-cost mobile banking technology suggests that it may be timely to engage them in accessing digital financial services and building their financial capabilities.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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A Wholesale Boost for Tenderos: Why SABMiller Latin America is investing $17M in small retailers
SABMiller Latin America will invest US$17 million over four years in the program that has been designed in collaboration with the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It will be launched in the six core markets for SABMiller in the region, and will target around 10 percent of tenderos.
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