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New research suggests public health in developing countries may be better improved by reducing illiteracy rather than raising average income. Pro-market policies...

Microfinance firm Grameen Financial Services Pvt Ltd, popularly known as Grameen Koota, has raised its third round of equity funding, led by...

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) announced last week that the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will provide GBP £10.5...

CHENNAI: Social business incubator Villgro, along with four others in the agri startup space, has invested Rs 1 crore in Bengaluru-based micro...

PUNE: Impact investment firm Villgro has announced a Rs 20-crore fund targeted at incubating education startups. In the initial phase, Villgro will...

New 'Young Women Social Entrepreneurship Development Programme' in India is to identify women working in social enterprises and train them to become...

Hyderabad-based Caspian Advisors has said it would set up a $40-million fund to provide debt capital to a wide range of institutions...

The National Innovation Council (NIC) Chairman will launch a Rs 5,000-crore venture fund aimed at supporting small enterprises by March. "We are...

About the Program The Clinton Fellowship is an immersive, 10-month service program matching highly skilled young professionals with high impact NGOs and...

For a growing number of companies, cleantech promises innovations and opportunities at the base of the pyramid After driving taxis in New...

Aavishkaar India II (Aavishkaar II), a venture fund focussed towards investing in underserved India achieved its final close at US $ 94...

Investors have committed at least Rs 400 crore to a government-backed fund that will provide capital to new ventures serving the needs...

On January 9th The New York Times ran an article on the scale of ambition in India related to the growth of...

Great news from Capria! The company announced on 9th July 2018 a partnership with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade...

Villgro’s Investment Manager Kavita Rajagopalan explains that the education sector in India is an ocean of opportunities The education sector in India...

Impact equity investment continued to be an important component of the India private equity landscape, comprising 23 per cent of the overall...

Applications for The Artha Venture Challenge, a national competition run by the Artha Platform to find the most ambitious, early stage social...

DFID and the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves have both announced special awards, of INR five Lakh and INR 7.5 Lakh...

RIS' Ram Upendra Das on the implications of the amended India-Mauritius tax treaty by Lola Nayar On May 10, 2016, India and...

BENGALURU: ZipDial has become the first Indian technology product startup to be bought by Twitter in what is the third such deal...

In a bid to provide clean drinking water, a new wave of social enterprises emerged and showed an unleashing potential to tackle...

In order to avoid excesses of the kind that derailed the Indian microfinance industry three years ago, nine entities doing 'impact investing'...

Scholarship applications are now open for "Impact Forum 2013: Investing in Inclusion" on 13 - 14 June in Singapore. Ten scholarships will...

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