Acumen Fund is announcing its expansion to West Africa, with new investments in innovative companies supporting land rights and agriculture in low-income communities across Ghana. Accra,

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Investment Will Help Sproxil Build Sales Teams, Expand into India and Kenya, and Make Improvements to the Technology New York, NY (PRWEB) March 22, 2011 Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund addressing poverty in South Asia and East Africa, today announced an investment in Sproxil, Inc., a company that provides a Mobile Product Authenticationâ„¢ (MPAâ„¢) solution that enables consumers to verify that the pharmaceutical product they are buying is genuine.

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LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Because human progress relies on the advancement of the best ideas, The Economist is launching a new series of events that bring together top thinkers from around the world to discuss and debate the most important ideas of our time.