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"Investors and financial advisors looking for a way to achieve social and environmental impact, as well as financial reward, might want to consider impact investing.

Around the world, particularly in underdeveloped, poverty-stricken countries from East and West Africa, to Central America, to South Asia, impact investing is attracting wealthy investors. Impact investing attracted attention last year with the launch of the Global Impact Investing Network, or GIIN, based in New York, a collaboration platform and information hub designed to accelerate the development of impact investing in a more efficient, effective manner."

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