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Migrant workers sent $256 billion home to Asia-Pacific last year - UN

Remittances – May 7, 2018

ARCHIVE PHOTO: An employee checks dollar bills at a money changer in Manila March 28, 2012

Tackling heavy Caribbean debt is key to future disaster protection, leaders say

Disaster prevention – May 31, 2018

Workers of Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority repair part of the electrical grid as the island's fragile power system is still reeling from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria eight months ago, in Utuado, Puerto Rico, May 17, 2018.

Godfather of investing for good says capitalism leaving people behind

Impact investment – Jun 11, 2018

Sir Ronald Cohen addressing the 2017 Global Steering Group Impact Summit in Chicago July 11, 2017.

Opinion-Preparing for disaster pays by saving lives, cutting losses

Disaster prevention – Jun 18, 2018

Residents walk in a village devastated by flash floods in Salvador, Lanao del Norte in southern Philippines, Dec. 24, 2017.

Growth in aid funding slows for second year

Aid – Jun 19, 2018

Women hold food aid distributed by humanitarian institutions in Afrin, Syria March 20, 2018.

Sustainable Investment Forum North America

Event

Dec 12, 2018

12:36 UTC

New York , NY, United States

Microfinance could help African cities solve housing crisis - experts

Housing – Jul 12, 2018

A resident reacts as he attempts to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Kijiji slums in the Southlands estate of Nairobi, Kenya, January 28, 2018.

UBS puts Indian girls into school - and makes a profit

Education – Jul 13, 2018

A schoolgirl sits on the doorstep of a house as she waits to go to school at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, April 6, 2015.

Are the Caribbean's wealthy new citizens a lifeline or a liability?

Caribbean – Jul 19, 2018

People lounge at Mount Cinnamon Resort's beach club on Grand Anse beach in St. George's, the capital of the Caribbean island nation of Grenada, June 1, 2018.

Climate Risk and Investment: Framing Private Challenges and Opportunities

Event

Dec 12, 2018

12:36 UTC

Washington D.C., DC, United States

Campaigners and K-pop fans turn to crowdfunding for conservation

Environmental preservation – Aug 8, 2018

Archive Photo: A man reads a newspaper in front of a fence that depicts a forest to conceal construction work going on in the background in central Seoul March 6, 2013.

Pope leads Catholics to profit from, not just give to, the poor

Impact investment – Sep 6, 2018

Pope Francis waves as he leads the "Urbi et Orbi"message from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, December 25, 2017.

Winning design for Phnom Penh factory worker homes, a model for other cities

Housing – Sep 18, 2018

Garment workers sit on the floor of their apartment during a lunch break in a suburb of Phnom Penh June 26, 2013.

Opinion: Investing in climate resilience means doing development differently

Climate finance – Sep 21, 2018

Children fill a jerry can at a water source in the Sanleo village in Malaka district, Indonesia Nusa Tenggara Timur province, October 10, 2015

Colombian city helps young shun 'life choice' of gang violence

Crime – Sep 27, 2018

Participants of the TIP gang prevention programme (middle Camilo in grey shirt, middle left Fares), in Las Minas neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia, September 13, 2018.

Risk Finance for the Developing World

Event

Dec 12, 2018

12:36 UTC

London, United Kingdom

UCL Finance Event

The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world

Data analysis – Feb 27, 2017

Satellite antennas are pictured at the technical center of Signalhorn company in Leuk, Switzerland, in this 2016 archive photo.

BLOG: How do economies bounce back after a disaster?

Business – Mar 1, 2017

Woman carrying water in Woukpokpoe village, Benin.

Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns

Impact investment – Mar 21, 2017

A woman has her eyes examined at a salauno clinic in Mexico

Colombia's City of Women rebuilds homes and hopes

Women – Mar 27, 2017

(R to L) Maritza Marimon, Everlides Almanza and Ana Luz Ortega, members of the League of Displaced Women who built Colombia’s City of Women, have a meeting at the community centre in the Municipality of Turbaco, near the city of Cartagena in northern Colombia, February 13, 2017. TRF/Anastasia Moloney