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Safaricom Monitoring Use of Free M-Pesa Transactions Offer
Safaricom has revealed that it is watching the use of its new M-Pesa Kadogo offer of free transactions for amounts of less than 100 Ksh in order to determine whether a limit should be imposed on the number of transactions per user. The mobile operator introduced M-Pesa Kadogo during the release of its unaudited half year 2017 results (for the period ended September 30 2016).
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ECHO, India through its Maiden Orientation Program Reinforces National Priority of Expanding Healthcare Delivery in Rural Communities through Digital Access
Healthcare delivery in underserved areas is a huge challenge the world over. The leveraging of scarce resources of a nation in remote areas is extremely difficult. Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) started in rural community of New Mexico, one of the underdeveloped states of USA in 1994 is built to address this challenge.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Poor people’s access to financial services on the rise in India
A financial survey of four poor states of India—Odisha, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh—has revealed that access to formal banking outlets is not as difficult as had been in the past and an increasing number of people are being financially included.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Developing World’s Health Innovators
We live in an age of tragic health paradoxes. Mass immunization campaigns have eliminated entire diseases, but children in countries like Haiti and Bangladesh continue to die of easily treatable diseases caused by common pathogens. Globalization has lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty, but has left them exposed to the non-communicable diseases of the post-industrial age – from diabetes to heart disease – in countries that lack the resources to treat them.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Just how green is ESG investing?
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is now big business. What began as a niche market decades ago has blossomed into a multi-trillion-pound industry and continues to grow at an alarmingly fast rate. According to the specialist research provider Eiris, more than £15bn was invested in UK ethical/socially responsible retail funds in 2015, up by 11% year on year.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Collymore bets on opening up M-Pesa to ring up Safaricom’s future billions
When it released its half year financials last week, Safaricom once again did not disappoint. It reported another profitability record, a 32.36 per cent jump in net earnings of Sh23.9 billion in the six months to September 30. It earned a massive Sh102 billion in total revenue for the half year, compared to Sh97.2 billion in the same period last year.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, financial inclusion, fintech
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Viewpoint: Johnson & Johnson Launches $100k Africa Innovation Challenge
Multinational pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has launched its Africa Innovation Challenge, which will reward a number of solutions in the health and family spaces with up to US$100,000 in funding and mentorship.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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Opinion: Why markets should matter to health advocates
Today, one of global health’s biggest challenges — and opportunities — lies in strengthening the markets that make health products, services, and technologies available to those who need them most.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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