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The Trouble with Over-the-Counter Digital Finance: Powerful agents and fractured markets cause challenges in Pakistan
Pakistan is easily one of the top five leading digital finance markets in the world, and also one of the least understood. The country adopted an Over-the-Counter methodology, in which transactions are executed by the agent as opposed to the customer over a mobile wallet platform. But according to the Helix Institute, this approach has caused significant challenges for the industry.
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Launching Products that Meet Needs: Addressing market demand through user-centered development
Health care products generated through a holistic process that starts with good product development, and incorporates public health and commercialization perspectives throughout the process, are more likely to meet the needs of the intended user groups and other key stakeholders.
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NexThought Monday – How 5,000 Stranded Flip-Flops Almost Doomed Three Social Startups
Five years ago, Village Capital made its first investment – in Feelgoodz, the a U.S. fair-trade rubber company, which sells comfortable flip-flops that are responsibly manufactured in South Asia. Feelgoodz got a major purchase order from Whole Foods that January. Sounds like a great story, so why is the headline so depressing?
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Twitter Top Ten – 6-14-15
This week Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stepped down. His exit was expected, considering the pressure from Wall Street and from one of Twitter’s biggest investors Chris Sacca to make the service more user friendly. Until that day comes, we’re happy to curate our favorite Tweets of the week for you.
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Weekly Roundup – Walter Peck Had a Point: Why regulators and entrepreneurs sometimes have to ‘cross the streams’
There were plenty of supernatural bad guys in the movie Ghostbusters, but the villain you probably despised the most was the overbearing EPA agent Walter Peck. But while he may have been a jerk, his efforts to regulate the Ghostbusters were absolutely justified. We (somehow) tie the film to recent events in Uganda’s mobile money industry in this roundup.
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10 Key Issues Shaping Mobile Money in Africa: Takeaways from the Mondato Summit Africa
Africa is ground zero of the mobile money revolution, a rapidly developing and exciting – but often chaotic and confusing – space. Last week, some of the top names in the industry gathered in Johannesburg at the Mondato Summit Africa to bring some clarity to its present and future. We’ve put together 10 key takeaways from the event.
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Three Ways the Mobile Finance Ecosystem Can Reach the Next Level: Grameen Foundation takes a look ahead
Mobile finance has spread around Africa and the world, but many still live beyond its reach – especially in rural areas. And both technical and business challenges still make it hard to reach them. In the final post in their series on how microfinance can go digital, Grameen Foundation explores three ways progress will need to be made for the global mobile finance ecosystem to take the next steps.
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CSR in Practice: Creating business value and development impact in the WASH sector
Neil Jeffery, CEO of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, believes the WASH sector affords opportunities for companies to create business value and generate lasting social impact at the same time – and points to five multinationals to prove it.
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