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AIG to Sell Crowdfunding Insurance, Looking to Make Money Off Investors’ Worries
American International Group is giving crowdfunding a try. Not to raise money for startups, but to profit off investors’ concerns about being ripped off as they invest in small businesses through this new type of funding.
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- North America
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Impact investing fund for students launched in Nigeria
Venture Kinetics, led by Jobberman founder Opeyemi Awoyemi, and Passion Incubator have partnered the launch the FastForward Student Innovation Fund, an impact investing fund focused on innovations of students or recent graduates of Nigerian universities.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ericsson to develop ‘Emergency Wallet’ for humanitarian aid
Ericsson has committed to developing Ericsson Emergency Wallet, a mobile financial services solution, for deployment in the immediate aftermath of disaster or crises to support humanitarian organizations and affected populations.
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Report: Off-Grid Electricity, Mobile Money Could Help Plug Africa’s Rural Power Crunch
A combination of renewable energy sources off the national grids could be a solution to supplying electricity to rural areas across Africa, a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) showed on Monday.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Behind the World’s Top Drugmakers’ Approach to Zika Vaccine
What if a drugmaker spent billions of dollars to create a vaccine -- only to find out humans developed natural resistance to the disease before its product is ready?
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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India’s New Patent Policy Spurs Debate Over Implications for Pharma
Amid an ongoing rift with the US government, India last week issued a new policy about intellectual property, but opinions are divided over whether the move will appease the pharmaceutical industry, which has been pushing the Indian government to strengthen patent protection.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Viewpoint: Secret Vote on WHO Bodes Ill for Future of Global Health
With the future of global health more uncertain than it has been in more than a decade, the first hats have been tossed into the election ring for top leadership at the World Health Organization. It is a dire time for WHO, which has seen its financial and political support erode steadily for the last decade, its credibility suffering mightily over its slow and sloppy response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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- Health Care
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4 Ways for the Private Sector to Support Women’s Health
Reflecting on what is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, I am struck by how much work is needed to secure the place of reproductive health in discussions on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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