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Geneva, February 26, 2019 - Ireland reconfirms its partnership with the International Trade Centre to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth – with a focus on empowering women, youth and vulnerable groups – by committing EUR 800,000 in 2019.

International Trade Centre Executive Director Arancha González and ...

Mumbai, February 19, 2019:  Today the World Bank, UN Women and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), along with some ten leading wealth managers and corporates, came together to launch a new social impact bond – Women’s Livelihood Bonds - that will help rural women ...

Rome, February 15, 2019

• The Agri-Business Capital Fund (‘ABC Fund’) will be launched at the IFAD annual Governing Council in Rome.
• First commitments to the ABC Fund come from the European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, the Luxembourg Government and the ...

Rome, 15 February 2019 - An impact fund with an innovative approach for attracting much needed capital to the rural areas of developing countries will be launched today at the annual meeting of Member States of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

IFAD, along with ...

Brussels, 25 February 2019 - The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Member States today on a new generation of low-carbon benchmarks needed to help boost investment in sustainable projects and assets. The European Parliament and Council still have to formally ...

NEW YORK, February 20 - Nuveen, a leading global investment manager, today announced the closing of a $10 million impact investment in Revolution Foods, a company transforming citywide wellness by providing two million healthy school and community meals each week to early childhood centers, districts, charter ...

Vienna, February 22, 2019 - You don’t have to be big to become an impact investor – this is the motto of Yova, a Zurich-based fin-tech start-up that was founded in 2017 and currently has about a dozen employees. But are they not too small to ...

Vienna, February 19, 2019 - “Impact Investing? What is that?” – people, for a long time, used to ask. This is the case no longer. There is a growing awareness of impact investing and an emerging community in the UK and Europe, following the trend towards impact ...

Vienna, February 13, 2019 - This, at least, is the opinion voiced by Andreas M. Rickert, CEO of PHINEO, an independent, not-for-profit analysis and consulting firm, in an analysis published in the „Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsalmanach 2018: Thesen und Taten. Transformation!“ (German Sustainability Alamanach 2018: Hypotheses and Practical ...