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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] For me, it has been a problem of finance until LEDFC," he says, referring to the Liberian Enterprise Development Finance Corporation that offers Liberian-owned firms desperately needed small business loans.

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Making Sense of the Many Kinds of Impact Investing

Harvard Business Review

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community.

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