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This Guide Helps Emerging Market Entrepreneurs Overhaul Their Human Capital Strategies
“We knew this was a problem, we just didn’t have a solution,” says Rachel Crawford, innovation manager for emerging markets at Village Capital. “The challenge offered us the chance to explore what it could look like.”
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MicroVest Sees Microfinance Shifting to Small Business
“What happens when the woman borrower who started with a $200 loan has built her business and has 10 employees and now needs $5,000 in capital to buy equipment and machinery?” asks Ron Cordes, the former co-founder and executive co-chairman of AssetMark, who has invested in MicroVest through his family foundation since 2007.
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- Investing
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Company to Create Global Network of Health Centers That Accept Cryptocurrency
A new blockchain-driven company has bold plans to establish a global network of health centers designed to help people lead active and longer lives.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- blockchain, cryptocurrency
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WhatsApp Payments India launch delayed as Facebook awaits government’s nod
In an earnings call with analysts after reporting its Q2 2018 results, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has been testing the payment feature on WhatsApp in India for some time.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Report: India will have nearly a million millionaires by 2027
The country will have 950,000 millionaires by 2027, up almost 190% from 330,000 last year, a recent report by Johannesburg-based market research group New World Wealth predicts.
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Deal gives resource-limited countries affordable access to ID testing
The Hologic Global Access Initiative will provide countries with affordable molecular diagnostics testing for HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and HPV, according to a news release. The countries eligible for the program, which are largely in Africa and Southeast Asia, comprise 90% of the global HIV burden.
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How blockchain technology could revolutionise microfinance in Cambodia
A new Cambodia-based startup thinks it might have found a way to change how microfinance lenders operate and cut down lending fees by more than half – by jumping on the blockchain bandwagon.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Zimbabwe’s cashless economy hampers businesses
"I think the need of cash is still there because some local vendors, if you want to buy tomatoes, bananas, they are not accepting EcoCash. So at the end of the day there is need for cash then at the same time there is need to adapt to using the EcoCash."
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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