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Philanthropy King: Bill Gates Gives Away $4.6 Billion, Unveils New Campaign To Combat Malaria
Gates gave away $4.6 billion in Microsoft shares in June to his personal charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Health Care
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Tough times spur spirit of entrepreneurialism in Middle East and North Africa
Female social entrepreneurs to have emerged in the wake of the Arab Spring.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- North Africa & Near East
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IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond Officially Listed on the Singapore Exchange
The US$8 million debt security will impact over 385,000 women in Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines through enhanced access to credit, market linkages, and affordable goods and services that will build women’s resilience to socio-economic shocks and stresses.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Communications tech biggest catalyst for ICT in Africa – Gartner
Speaking to ITWeb Africa ahead of the Gartner Symposium scheduled for September in Cape Town, principal research analyst William Hahn said Gartner's 2017 Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa confirms that communication technologies are setting the ICT agenda for the region.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Q&A: Founder of China’s first foundation talks future of philanthropy
China is home to the second largest percentage of the world’s billionaires, but philanthropy there remains a relatively new, emerging trend.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Asia Pacific
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- China, donors, philanthropy
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How AinFin is tackling poverty around the world by increasing access to financial services
The Level39-based fintech company wants to use its Swifin e-money platform to empower communities in Africa and around the world says chief executive and co-founder Dr. Joy Braun.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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OPINION: Historic health plan led by Africans for Africans
The continent’s leading health figures debated and discussed a continent-wide campaign to tackle key bottlenecks to health solutions in Africa. At the heart of this was the clarion call to African governments to prioritize health care in their countries, to do more to retain local health professionals and curb the exodus of their skills to foreign markets, and for more investment in supporting African health research to ensure locally-relevant- and- led health solutions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Africa, Ghana, global health, healthcare, public health
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