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Accelerating Agritech Solutions in Israel, California, and Developing Economies
The global agricultural industry totals $8 trillion annually. Food and food services account for 10
percent of consumer spending worldwide, with 866 million employed in the sector in 2018.
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Feeding the World's Hungry: Fostering an Efficient and Responsive Food Access Pipeline
The 2008 global financial crisis left people with less money to feed their families and institution
s with fewer resources to help. At the time of the lab, hunger impacted 1B people, 65% of whom were concentrated in seven countries. Despite t
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Investing in Transportation Infrastructure in the Philippines
The Philippines ranked 112th among 138 countries studied for quality of infrastructure, well behind
many of its Southeast Asian neighbors.
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Unleashing the Power of the Bio-Economy
In 2012, the United States was poised to begin converting 20 percent of petrochemical consumption t
o bio-based products, creating jobs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and capturing a large share of the global renewable chemicals market.
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Financial innovations can open the market to wider disaster coverage, Milken Institute report says
LOS ANGELES — Catastrophic losses from the Northridge earthquake, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and
widespread flooding in the early 1990s prompted many insurers to look for new market-based solutions to provide coverage in hazardous markets.
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Financial innovations can help preserve cultural heritage and slow illicit antiquities trade, according to Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES — Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the illicit antiquitie
s trade has grown into a $4-billion market that has left behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation.
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Milken Institute report examines new regulatory models and financial innovations to fund U.S. smart grid and energy needs
LOS ANGELES — The U.S.
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Financial innovations can help produce new medicines through funding of early-stage drug development, Milken Institute report says
Despite the enormous potential of biomedical research to cure disease, public and private funding ha
s declined — a trend that could jeopardize efforts to find improved treatments for people with life-threatening illnesses.
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Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets Phase I Summary: Developing Action-Oriented Solutions to the Financing Challenges Facing Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Minority-owned small businesses play an important role in the nation’s economic health by driving j
ob creation, raising wages, and elevating better standards of living in communities throughout the United States.
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Delivery of food assistance to world's hungry could improve through the innovative use of financial tools, says new report from Milken Institute
(LOS ANGELES) Global food assistance saves millions of lives every year, but millions more could be
saved through innovation in funding, supply and delivery systems.
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Investing for Impact in Emerging and Frontier Markets
The US and Israel recently agreed to expand collaboration between USAID and MASHAV, Israel's Devel
opment Agency of International Cooperation, through co-innovation and the deployment of technology solutions to bolster and foster self-reliance in emergin
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Milken Institute Report: Innovative Financing Can Help Rebuild Northern Israel
JERUSALEM — One year after the Second Lebanon War, northern Israel continues to suffer from high une
mployment, high poverty rates and a lack of infrastructure needed to help rebuild the war-torn region.
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