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ET Startup Awards: How AgroStar is making a profit while making a difference
Pune-based brothers Shardul Sheth and Sitanshu Sheth quit their corporate jobs over five years ago to explore an opportunity within India's agri-tech sector, specifically focusing upon how technology could improve the lives of farmers.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- South Asia
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World’s First Islamic Endowment Crowdfunding Platform Launched
Tun Abdullah Badawi, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, has launched the Waqf (Islamic Endowment) crowdfunding platform or WaqfWorld. Described as the “worlds first” the new platform was announced at the 12th World Islamic Economic Foundation Forum (WIEF) held in Jakarta this past week The platform was developed in partnership with EthisVentures.com.
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- Uncategorized
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- North Africa & Near East
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- crowdfunding, philanthropy
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A Cheap, Easy Fix to Rio’s Sewage Problem
If you somehow haven’t heard, this year’s Olympics promise to be full of it. Meghan O’Leary, a member of the U.S. rowing team, told the Los Angeles Times she plans to avoid touching her face during her Olympic events, which begin this weekend. The water where Olympic rowers, sailors, and swimmers will compete still teems with hazardous levels of bacteria and viruses.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Latin America
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Fintech isn’t disrupting Africa’s financial industry—it’s building it
African fintech is not disrupting the existing financial service providers. This is because, in many areas of the continent, there is nothing to disrupt, with large swathes of the low and lower middle income segments unserved or under-served when it comes to formal financial services.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Looking beyond the hype at fintech in Southeast Asia
From the offices of Venture Capital firms to the financial services districts, you may not be able to escape the promising whispers of fintech startups. Take a structural shift to mobile, an ever decreasing cost of computing power, the availability of lots of (big!) data, mix in one part artificial intelligence, one part distributed ledgers and we have the perfect recipe for how technology will change the face of banking and insurance forever.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech, venture capital
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Business Development Fund, 450 Microfinance Institutions Partner to Ease Agriculture Financing in Rwanda
The issue of high rates and lack of collateral demanded by banks before they issue loans to farmers will soon be history thanks to a deal reached with 450 microfinance institutions, according to the Chief Executive Officer of the Business Development Fund, Innocent Bulindi.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tata Trusts and The Global Fund launch ‘The India Health Fund’
Tata Trusts, in association with The Global Fund, launched ‘The India Health Fund (IHF)’, at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai yesterday. The India Health Fund is a pioneering vehicle by Tata Trusts, designed to not only influence philanthropic capital within India, but also serve as a trusted mechanism to generate significant impact in addressing key health challenges in the country – starting with malaria and tuberculosis.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Why Zimbabwe Blocked MTN And Safaricom From Entering Local Market
The Zimbabwean government deliberately blocked the entry of South Africa’s MTN Group and Kenya’s Safaricom into the nation’s telecoms space in order to shield local operators from bigger international firms and promote their organic growth.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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