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Payment Banks: How It Is Possible to Build a Business Around Financial Inclusion
Dattaram, 50, earns Rs 9,000 a month doing domestic chores in three to four homes in a Mumbai neighbourhood.
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- South Asia
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The Rise of the Cheap Smartphone : And what it could mean for BoP finance, connectivity
According an estimate from Gartner, by 2018 nine out of ten phones will be smartphones. If this comes to pass, it may require a substantial rethink about the delivery of mobile financial services to consumers in developing markets, where up until now the feature phone has dominated.
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- Technology
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Rwanda: How Mobile Money Is Leading the Drive Toward a Cashless Economy
Since its launch in 2011, the nation's journey toward a cashless economy has registered steady progress with benefits such as reducing financial exclusion and enhancing customer experience.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Make Good on Gates’ Big Bets? : By doubling down on bundled solutions
The Bill and Melinda Gates’ 2015 letter identifies four “big bets” that could lead us to a future with vastly reduced levels of poverty. At the Grameen Foundation we are bundling two of these “bets” - financial services with practical information on good farming practices - into a unified push to reduce rural poverty.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Ugandan joint venture wins $1m
TTC Mobile, (formerly Text to Change), management said the money will be used to expand the company’s activities, hire more local and international staff and spread its projects all over the world, effectively turning the company into a leading global social enterprise. Eunice Namirembe, the TTC Mobile Uganda Country Director, has said this investment will help more social projects and possible expansion of some of the existing ones.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Four Initiatives From Across Africa Win Share of Global $1 Million Healthcare Innovation Award
Organisations from South Africa, Zambia, Kenya and Uganda recognised by GSK and Save the Children for innovations proven to help reduce deaths in under-fives.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Stop Marketing, Start Elevating
The next five years will throw a lot of cold water on marketers, waking them up to a burning challenge. At the heart of it is a global tech-fuelled surge of power from brands to people, and today it is sweeping through a younger, assertive hooked-up India.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Press Release: U.S. Small Business Administration’s Impact Investment Fund Grows Threefold in Last 12 Months
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that the Impact Investment Fund of the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program has tripled in the last 12 months.
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- Education, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Technology
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