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Now an Omaha attorney, Ziskey donated to The World-Herald’s Goodfellows fund last year in honor of those memories with his dad, Joe Ziskey, who died 14 years ago ... In 1938, Omahans created “Mile o’ Dimes” to raise funds for The World-Herald’s Goodfellows charity ... THE WORLD-HERALD....

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Newton Prize winners to use Mathematics to restore power to the people

Process and Control Today 19 Nov 2018

It’s great to see this year’s applications representing the breadth of the Newton Fund’s work from public and private sector organisations based around the world ... From energy and healthcare, to agriculture and digital, the Newton Fund demonstrates how bringing researchers together ......

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Jason: SEC needs your feedback on mutual funds

Santa Cruz Sentinel 19 Nov 2018

Do you invest in mutual funds? If you do, either through your retirement plan at work or directly, you are one of 100 million ... If you are a serious mutual fund investor — in my world, that is the 81 percent of households who invest in funds for retirement — you will want to do the reading and voice your opinion....

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Investing in Guyana's future

Petroleum World 19 Nov 2018

On the issue of a Sovereign Wealth Fund ... Her ideas broadly fit with what many international experts from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Resource Governance Institute and others have recommended to Guyana ... Norway, for example, used funds to invest in local businesses....

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Coffee chief backs Bono's social fund

Belfast Telegraph 19 Nov 2018

He added that he was a big admirer of Bono and also former US presidential candidate Al Gore for having founded investment funds that aim to help solve the world's biggest ......

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Miss World is all about young women who bring about a global change: Manushi Chillar

Deccan Chronicle 19 Nov 2018

Miss World Manushi Chillar has completed a year of bringing the blue crown back home to India and is all set to fly out to China to crown the next winner ... "The Miss World journey has been incredible ... "There were people who were trying to get funding for the last two three years, and us being there helped....

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The Kampachi Company Receives Investment from Sustainable Ocean Fund

Market Watch 19 Nov 2018

The Kampachi Company announced today the closing of an equity investment from the Althelia Sustainable Ocean Fund (SOF), a new fund managed by Mirova Natural Capital dedicated to making pioneering impact investments that align ocean resource development and conservation goals ... As a result, we will soon offer to the world the ocean’s finest fish....

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Global fight against malaria has stalled, WHO warns

This is Money 19 Nov 2018

Malaria, which is spread to people through the bites of infected female mosquitoes, is one of the world's deadliest diseases. The World Health Organisation on Monday said global efforts to fight malaria have hit a plateau as it reported there were more cases of the killer disease in 2017 than the previous year....

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Global fight on malaria stalled: WHO

The Hindu 19 Nov 2018

The World Health Organisation on Monday said global efforts to fight malaria have hit a plateau as it reported there were more cases of the killer disease in 2017 than the previous year ... “The world faces a new reality,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned as the UN agency launched the new report....

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John Stossel: Do we really want to move to single-payer health care?

Post-Bulletin 19 Nov 2018

American drug companies, funded by American customers, fund most of the world's research and development of pharmaceuticals. New drugs and devices are expensive, so oftentimes in Britain, says Pope, "whenever a new drug comes on the market that can save lives, the government just doesn't have the funds to pay for it."....

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Who holds the key to solving KU’s persistent financial woes?

The News International 19 Nov 2018

... machinery, but they lack proper funding ... We just don’t have the funds, which is why Pakistani institutes are rated low on the World University Rankings.” ... We just don’t have the funds, which is why Pakistani institutes are rated low on the World University Rankings.”....

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Why central bank digital currencies will destroy bitcoin | Nouriel Roubini

The Guardian 19 Nov 2018

The world’s central bankers have begun to discuss the idea of (CBDCs), and now even the International Monetary Fund and its managing director, Christine Lagarde, are talking openly about the pros and cons of the idea ... He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank....

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Struggling gold price lifted by limp dollar

Business Day 19 Nov 2018

World shares rose on Monday, amid conflicting signals about a potential truce in the China-US trade dispute ... Indicative of investor sentiment toward bullion, holdings of SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, fell 0.2% to their lowest in a week on Friday....