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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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Meeting Business Goals through ESG Data Optimization and Technology in Southeast Asia
Beginning in late 2020, with the support of Google Cloud, the Milken Institute embarked on a two-pa
rt Financial Innovations Lab series, exploring the role of technology in improving the resilience and function of Southeast Asia’s financial systems, incl
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Making plants into products through industrial biotech would benefit from policy support, effective advocacy and sustained funding
LOS ANGELES — Industrial biotechnology can turn plants into plastics, chemicals and other products t
hat are usually made with petroleum.
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Outcome-based philanthropic giving can drive food security and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Milken Institute report
(LOS ANGELES) Despite significant donor and philanthropic efforts, economic growth in sub-Saharan Af
rica continues to be hampered by agricultural diseases that sicken or kill livestock and contaminate crops.
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New, effective investment models work to fund drug discovery for the developing worldMilken Institute report identifies innovative financing for global health research
LOS ANGELES— The world of medicine has long been divided— between developed countries that can affor
d cutting-edge treatments and developing ones whose poor populations too often go without urgently needed care.
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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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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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Small Changes in Investment Incentives Can Have a Powerful Effect on Energy Independence
LOS ANGELES — Global environmental concerns and national security demands have everyone talking abou
t alternative energy sources. But preparing Americans to be energy independent requires more than talk.
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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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Milken Institute report says integrating residential energy-efficiency programs and financial instruments is key to going green
(LOS ANGELES) Our homes produce 20 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and study after stu
dy finds that efficiency measures are the cheapest way to save energy.
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