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Impact Investing in Healthcare: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

The Southeast Asian healthcare ecosystem is undergoing a metamorphosis: disruptive technologies, innovative financing arrangements, and new delivery models are playing a crucial role in meeting the region’s evolving healthcare needs and growing demand. Public health trends such as population ageing and rising deaths tolls from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are being exacerbated by the lack of affordability of healthcare and the deterioration of public service provision in many developing countries. COVID-19 has illuminated the inability of many governments to respond timely and effectively to health crises, demonstrating the need for private capital to advance universal health coverage (UHC).

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Posted on September 19, 2020January 15, 2021Author Danielle TodescoCategories social investingTags COVID-19, healthcare, impact investing, universal health coverageLeave a comment on Impact Investing in Healthcare: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges

Rose-tinted glasses? What it Means to Adopt a Gender Lens in the World of Social Investment

By Chathuni Uduwela

Gender has a material effect on social, economic, and political experience. In nearly every aspect of life, there is a discernible difference between the opportunities available to men, women, and non-binary or non-conforming individuals; this in turn results in gaps in attainment along various dimensions including education, health, and livelihoods. These gaps pose persistent challenges to policymakers who strive to minimize the differences in policy impact across various segments of their target populations.

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Posted on July 19, 2020January 15, 2021Author Chathuni UduwelaCategories social investingTags COVID-19, gender equality, gender lens investing, social investing, women's empowermentLeave a comment on Rose-tinted glasses? What it Means to Adopt a Gender Lens in the World of Social Investment

Introduction to Social Investing

By Gandhar Desai

COVID-19 has brought the issue of sustainability into sharp focus across the world. Whether it’s the disproportionate impact of strict lockdowns on underserved groups or decrease in pollution levels because of the slowdown in economic activity, the pandemic has spurred a global dialogue on the socio-economic and environmental costs of continuing with ‘business as usual’.

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Posted on July 10, 2020September 2, 2021Author Gandhar DesaiCategories social investingTags COVID-19, ESG, impact investing, philanthropy2 Comments on Introduction to Social Investing