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  • Global South investors feel urgency and pessimism for COP29

    11 November 2024

    Investors in the Global South have told Environmental Finance that they feel a great sense of urgency and pessimism as COP29 kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan over concerns that negotiators and policymakers are dragging their heels on financial pledges to support the countries that need it most.

  • Disproving perceived risk of emerging market investing is a 'complicated matter'

    05 August 2024

    The realities of disproving investor's assumptions on risk regarding emerging market-based investments is "complicated" but necessary for mobilising capital into the Global South, an impact investor has claimed.

  • Impact in Africa: SMEs' fight for survival amid Covid-19

    22 May 2020

    With the 'missing middle' in sub-Saharan Africa ballooning and many SMEs on life support, Vital Capital has launched a debt facility to help, Nimrod Gerber tells Michael Hurley