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Smartphone uptake boosts mobile banking
The growing demand for smartphones, mass adoption of cashless services and hotspot services that provide free Wi-fi to customers has resulted in the expansion of the mobile wallet industry, according to a new report.
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- Education, Technology
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- mobile finance, research
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Designed to Arrive Early: How we can save the lives of millions of children
To save children’s lives in the world’s poorest communities, we need to break free from the current reactive model for healthcare delivery. We need to reach our patients earlier.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Weekly Roundup: Honoring Greg Dees
Real innovators disassemble, tinker, and then reassemble the known parts of a thing - any thing - to create something new and lasting. That’s what J. Gregory Dees did in defining social entrepreneurship 16 years ago in his paper “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship.” Dees passed away last month, leaving a legacy for the academic study of social entrepreneurship.
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- Education
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Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community development
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care
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Global health 2035: A world converging within a generation
Prompted by deepening concerns over poverty and global inequality, the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, putting forward a series of goals which were meant to be achieved by 2015. Core issues included improving global health, including reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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Expanding Financial Access and Education
For several decades, the exciting promise of microfinance has been to provide the world’s poorest with access to financial services. But along the way, microfinance has too often become conflated with micro-credit. Now, however, many MFIs have reincorporated as banks with the ability to accept savings, and the full promise of microfinance is beginning to be realized.
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- Education
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- microfinance, savings
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What’s Holding Back China’s Mobile-Money Market?
China further solidified its position as a market that could greatly impact payments in 2013
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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The Indian government launched a comprehensive programme to improve the health of adolescents
Adolescents comprise over 21 percent of the over 121 core population, in the country with a focus on community-based interventions.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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