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UBS Cancer Fund Shows Power of Impact Investing
UBS Wealth Management is proving investors in Asia will warm to funding projects with social and environmental benefits if the potential returns deliver.
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- Environment, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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How Social Entrepreneurship Is Making a Difference in the World
We have grown accustomed to the Silicon Valley zeal driving startups to develop new technologies that will disrupt the market in yet another way.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Closing the Gap on Vaccine Efficacy in the ‘Global South’
Vaccines and antibiotics occupy a privileged position in the history of medicine. They are humanity’s “magic bullets” — categories of intervention so effective and easy to deliver that they have the capacity to single-handedly eradicate entire diseases from human history. But just as the heady utopia of an antibiotic age has given way to the cold, evolutionary reality of antibiotic resistance, we must now also confront the pervasive problem of vaccine failure in the global South.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Sun Pharma Joins Hands With ICMR for Malaria Eradication Prog
In a first of its kind of public private partnership (PPP), pharmaceutical giant Sun Pharma has collaborated with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to eradicate malaria by 2030.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Microlender Ujjivan Eyes $375M Valuation in IPO
Bengaluru-based microfinance firm Ujjivan Financial Services Ltd is seeking a valuation of as much as Rs 2,500 crore ($375 million) in an initial public offering that opens on April 28.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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A Toilet for India That Also Delivers Clean Water
In India, 600 million people lack access to a clean toilet, and, lately, the government has been on a big drive to build more of them. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s "Clean India" campaign aims to provide decent sanitation to all Indians by 2019.
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- Health Care
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Trending: Blending, The Fad for Mixing Public, Charitable and Private Money
MEETING the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will require additional investments of $2.5 trillion a year in things like health care and education for the world’s poorest people, according to UNCTAD, a UN agency. A further $13.5 trillion is needed by 2030 to implement the Paris climate accord, according to the International Energy Agency, a watchdog group. It is enough to drive development types to drink—which may be how they came up with the term “blended finance”, a heady cocktail of public, private and charitable money.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Review Moratorium on Oil Palm Plantations
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo plans to issue a decree on the suspension of issuances of new oil palm plantation development in the country. His decision is a commitment to protect the country’s remaining tropical forests and demonstrate his determination for the country’s environmental stewardship.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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