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World’s first social impact bond achieved goals and repaid investors
But experts warn that the success of the One Service in Peterborough does not necessarily mean the SIB model will work elsewhere.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- impact investing
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Steep fees call into question bitcoin’s promise for the underbanked
Abra set out in 2014 to make mobile money movement cheap and fast worldwide, using the bitcoin network as rails.
But lately the fees for transferring value on that network have risen, creating a predicament for the startup: charge more for sending funds with its mobile app, or eat the fees.- Categories
- Technology
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- fintech
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Malaria test adapted to predict treatment side-effects
While most patients who receive the drug of choice (artemisinin artesunate) against malaria recuperate, a small number (less than 5 per cent) develop a serious and often fatal anaemia called post-artesunate delayed haemolysis (PADH) within a month of treatment.
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- Health Care
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High-tech snail-mail service What3words goes big in Africa
The tech wraps the globe in addresses like "atomic.camera.poem." That's good news for Nigeria, where a poor address system has been a serious concern for citizens.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The ‘Ivanka Fund’ drops Ivanka
Ms. Trump’s role in the creation of the World Bank-administered facility — officially known as the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, or We-Fi — has been controversial.
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- Uncategorized
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- gender equality
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OPINION: Social Entrepreneurship’s All-American Mind Trap
The notion of social entrepreneurship has become an arousing and intoxicating subject that has turned the social entrepreneurship discourse into a grand narrative.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- North America
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What Common Kitchen Ingredient Can Help Detect Cervical Cancer?
Each year, cervical cancer kills 270,000 women and a third of these deaths occur in just one country: India.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Cell Phones Bring Power to Africans Living Off the Grid
Fenix International, a San Francisco startup making solar-power systems for people with no access to electricity grids, is expanding in Africa through a partnership with the continent’s largest wireless carrier.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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