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Operators Want Telco-Led Mobile Money Initiative in Nigeria
Telecommunications service providers have renewed clamour to lead mobile money initiative in Nigeria on the basis that the current model has not been impactful on the economy.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cuba to Boost Uganda’s Healthcare
Visiting Cuban Vice president has said his country is keen on reactivating its historic ties with Uganda and help boost Uganda’s healthcare and university education.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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State Bank of Pakistan Aims for 50 Percent Financial Inclusion by 2020
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Deputy Governor Saeed Ahmed said that the central bank was pursuing a three-pronged strategy (3PS) to achieve the goal of 50 percent financial inclusion by the year 2020.
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- North Africa & Near East
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The ‘Just Add Water’ Chemistry Kit Can Create On-Demand Drugs and Vaccines
As humans explore the furthest edges of our own planet and others, the old ways of developing drugs won't work forever. Spending years creating a drug, testing it, manufacturing massive amounts of it, and then moving the temperature-sensitive medication over hundreds of miles is agonizingly cumbersome. When a community in a remote region is devastated by a Zika outbreak, slow and expensive solutions can cost lives. With the populations of the world’s least-developed countries projected to double by 2050, getting medication to remote areas is of growing interest to doctors and scientists.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Prepaid Debit Cards Users in U.S. Will Get New Federal Protections
Prepaid debit cards are a financial lifeline for many people, but a risky one. They lack many of the basic consumer protections that credit cards and bank debit cards are required to offer. That will change next year, with a raft of new federal rules intended to clamp down on a product that has been growing rapidly despite concerns about high fees, poor disclosures and weak protections for customers when something goes wrong.
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Rural Indian Villages Are About to Get Lifesaving Treatment Through an App
Lifesaving care for people in rural India will soon come through an app.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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ImpactSpace and CSRHub Bring Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Ratings to Impact Investments
ImpactSpace, the open database for the impact investing marketplace, is bringing CSRHub’s environmental, social and governance ratings into the world of impact investing.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Acclaimed Health Program Fails to Help Children in India
A widely hailed initiative that combines franchising business models and telemedicine to deliver better quality health care in rural India has failed to improve care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia, finds a large-scale study by researchers at Duke, Stanford and University College London.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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