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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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Market Solutions for Scaling Food Is Medicine Prescriptions
US food and health-care policies and programs have been largely siloed. With the momentum around F
ood Is Medicine interventions, there’s an opportunity for collaboration to expand FoodRx beyond pilot programs.
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Financial Markets Can Be a Stabilizing Force in an Uncertain World
As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, I remember vividly the long queues for basic groce
ries in the biting cold of a Russian winter., Financial markets can be an effective mechanism for driving innovation and change.
, We also witness that when populations have an agenda that’s important to them—such as addressing the climate crisis—financial markets can be an effective mechanism for driving innovation and change: whether it is banks working to expand carbon credit sc
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LIVE 11/08: Blockchain for Social Impact #CALeading
Blockchain has become a poster child for what we talk about when we talk about disruptive technolo
gy.
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How Universities Drive Innovation in Aging
Aging is big business.
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Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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The Impact Revolution: From Sustainable Development Goals to Solutions
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Financial Inclusion at the Frontier: Exploring the Landscape of Digital Asset Regulation in Africa
Forty-seven percent of Nigerians reportedly use cryptocurrencies, one of the highest rates in the wo
rld.
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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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