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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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Building the Sustainable Development Tech Project Pipeline (Invite only)
It is far too common that financial and operational bottlenecks choke off technology transfers n
eeded to meet global challenges—demand for renewable energy technology increases, yet investment in this sector is flat; new treatments, diagnostics, and hea
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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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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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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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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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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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Impact Investing: new promise for the "startup nation"? Milken Institute report identifies innovative ways for Israel to bolster social sector
LOS ANGELES -- Israel's social sector -- the public and private agencies, institutions, and business
es that address the country's social and economic development -- plays a vital part in its economy by identifying and dispensing crucial services.
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New Milken Institute report identifies market tools to safeguard biodiversity in Israel -- and elsewhere
Critical factor: finding market value of ecosystems to determine which policy and financial interven
tions can work
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