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Tag Archives: impact investing
Lending at the margins in Africa
By Matt Shakhovskoy Capital to finance new beehives for a local beekeeping cooperative in Zambia or a line of credit for a tea company in Rwanda to fund tea purchases from smallholder farmers are not your typical projects for the … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Finance
Tagged Africa, agriculture, finance, impact investing, lending, private sector, Root Capital, Rwanda, SME, Zambia
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Investing for impact at D. Capital
by Eric Cooperstrom When I joined D. Capital in July 2012, I became the fifth member of a team spread across London, Washington DC and Nairobi. At that time, we fit perfectly into the stereotypical start-up company mold: an entrepreneurial … Continue reading
Catalyzing impact investing in Senegal
By Afua Sarkodie-Kupka Impact investments – or investments that generate positive financial, social, and environmental returns – are growing significantly as funders look for new ways to have sustainable impact. In Senegal, the government is taking an active leadership role … Continue reading
Impact investing in an economic downturn
By guest bloggers Wouter Deelder and Nicolas Theopold Impact investments, or investments that generate financial and social returns, have grown rapidly over the past few years as investors have begun focusing their assets in areas such as microfinance, SME finance … Continue reading
Impact investing in West Africa
According to a recent report by JP Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, impact investments, or investments made to generate both positive financial and social returns, have grown significantly enough to constitute a new alternative asset class. In order to better … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Dakar, Ghana, impact investing, Nigeria, publications, Rockefeller Foundation, Senegal, West Africa
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Assessing the market for Stevia
This spring, The New York Times Magazine published an article asking “Is Sugar Toxic?” in response to a lecture posted as a YouTube video called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which, at the time of this blog post, had been watched … Continue reading
Posted in D. Capital
Tagged business strategy, D. Capital, Europe, impact investing, Latin America, Peru, sugar
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