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Take that, Telecoms: Helix’s Bangladesh study shows that banks and other players can also scale mobile money agent networks
Bangladesh has a burgeoning competitive landscape in mobile money, and due to regulations, none of the major players are telecoms. In other markets, telecoms have used their marketing budgets, national retailer networks and other advantages to scale digital financial services. But Bangladesh has shown that banks and third party providers can also succeed in the space. The Helix Institute discusses this and other findings from their recent study.
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Injections could be a thing of the past with scientists developing a way to inhale vaccines
Fear of a trip to the doctors and a jab of a needle could be a thing of the past, with scientists developing a world-first needless injection to dispense vaccines.
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Trillion-Sensor Vision, Results Shared
UCSD researchers show latest efforts
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UCLA gets $10 million for center to spur socially conscious projects
Former EBay Inc. President Jeff Skoll has donated $10 million to UCLA for a center that will encourage students to create socially conscious entertainment projects.
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Launching a Roadmap for the Base of the Pyramid Domain
The BoP Roadmap asks us to not only act for today, but to build for tomorrow, in order to truly achieve the promise of building a community of sustainable, scalable BoP enterprises focused on the alleviation of poverty. It is intended to create a stronger and more robust community that shares and learns together. As the old African proverb goes - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.
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Top tweets from the BoP Roadmap Launch
Top tweets from the launch of the BoP Roadmap event.
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From Classroom to the Real World: How young people in Africa can unlock limitless opportunities
Today more than half the population of sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 25, and the World Bank predicts that as many as 11 million young people will join an expanding labor market every year for the next decade. Ashoka Changemakers’ John Converse Townsend looks at two social entrepreneurs fostering creative methods for turning around the unemployment crisis.
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Converting Short-Term Remittances Into Long-Term Investments: Global Fund explores ways to build in financial inclusion and sustainable funding for health care
As many countries face mounting pressure to identify additional sources of domestic financing, The Global Fund ponders how individual remittance and savings accounts can play a larger role as an innovative solution for public health.
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