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In Lending Circles, a Roundabout Way to a Higher Credit Score
Shweta Kohli has always paid her own way.
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Mobile Money: Banks get ready to take on M-pesa
Safaricom's popular mobile money-transfer service may finally have met its match as innovation in the banking sector catches up.
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Nigerian Government Aims to Use Post Office to Reduce Unbanked Population to 10 Percent
The Federal Government has said it would leverage the expansive network of the Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST) to reduce the unbanked adult population in the country to 10 per cent by 2016.
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New Calvert chief sees two trends in sustainable investing
John Streur, incoming CEO of Calvert Investments Inc., sees "two broad trends that are really coming together to shape and influence socially responsible investing."
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Coins.ph launches Bitcoin wallet tailored for emerging markets
Yesterday, Coins.ph, the Philippines largest Bitcoin exchange, launched what it says is the first mobile Bitcoin wallet designed specifically for emerging markets.
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NexThought Monday: Social Financing: Three Opportunities and Three Questions
Combining the creation of social impact with financial returns is hard. Demonstrating social impact can be just as hard, and using impact analysis to actually improve a social investment strategy so that it creates greater social impact and financial returns is even harder. This is the challenge social financiers set themselves, and social impact analysis is needed to help them rise to meet it.
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SC Johnson Expands BoP Product Initiative in Ghana
This week SC Johnson announced it was expanding the business concept, called WOW, to Yilo Krobo District of southeastern Ghana, and will begin offering newly-bundled mosquito control products as well as home-cleaning products. This comes two years after the initial pilot in Bobikuma, Ghana.
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Beyond the Metros: Exploring Western and Southern India’s Jaipur, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram
Villgro’s Unconvention|L team and Okapi Research, which are visiting nine tier III cities in India to map regional social enterprise ecosystems and outline highlights and insights. In today’s post they focus on Western and Southern Indian towns Jaipur, Pune and Trivandrum.
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