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Report: Nine global drivers of mobile money, as consumers embrace e-commerce and mobile banking
New report, based on a study of 15,000 mobile media users across 15 countries, shows that mobile banking continues to engage consumers – especially in mobile first markets.
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Nine mobile money trends: Consumers embrace ecommerce and banking via mobile
A new report reveals nine significant mobile money trends and explores how they are stimulating growth across the expanded mobile ecosystem.
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We Won’t Meet Health-Related SDGs If We Don’t Invest in Innovation
The sustainable development goals won’t be finalized until September, but people are already debating whether we can reach them. At least for the proposed health targets one thing is clear, they won’t be achieved without innovations that make better health care more affordable, accessible and effective. #GlobalGoalsWork, but only if we have the tools we need to reach them.
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- Education, Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: FINCA Releases Case Study Outlining Ways to Drive Financial Inclusion Through Mobile Technology
FINCA’s experience in Tanzania offers lessons learned for development practitioners
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash
An interview with Jeremy N. Smith, author of a new book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients," about Christopher Murray’s audacious project to determine what is killing and plaguing people in every corner of the globe.
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Is Overpopulation a Legitimate Threat to Humanity and the Planet?
A recent Retro Report examines how the apocalyptic predictions about overpopulation made by the biologist Paul Ehrlich, in his 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” have not come to pass. ... But do we still need to worry about overcrowding?
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Moving from Access to Inclusion: New CFI report takes stock of progress – and pitfalls – on the road to full financial inclusion
Can we bring financial services to the world’s 2 billion unbanked individuals by 2020? Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion tackles that question in "By the Numbers: Benchmarking Progress Toward Financial Inclusion." The report explores both progress and challenges as the emphasis shifts from providing access to enabling active usage of financial services.
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Four Things I Learned About Surviving The Long Game of Social Enterprise
Parag Gupta, founder of Waste Ventures Charities, a non-profit, and for-profit Waste Capital Partners, recently asked a long-time social entrepreneur and investor what advice he would give now that impact investing had entered the mainstream. The mentor indicated that for a social entrepreneur to achieve the desired impact and reach a point of sustainability, it takes time – around 14 years.
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- Education, Environment