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Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal
When 26-year-old Laxmi married into the Archaya household in Chhaimale village, Pharping, south of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, she didn’t think she would be spending half the day in the kitchen inhaling smoke from the stove.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Social Impact Bonds Spread to New Zealand
The Ministry of Health is well down the track to pilot the country's first social impact bond, originally mooted 18 months ago, which would pay out on measurably improved social outcomes such as reductions in alcohol and drug use or recidivism.
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- Investing
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Policy Gridlock, Red Tape Still Hindering Investments in India: Standard & Poor’s
Flagging off “developing challenges” from the ground, global rating agency Standard and Poor’s on Thursday said a policy logjam and “red tape” have hindered investments in India.
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- South Asia
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Mobile Money to Power Global Remittances
Global remittances will grow slowly in 2015, but accelerate again in 2016/17: global remittances are projected to reach $586 billion in 2015, at a slower growth rate of 0.4% due to economic conditions. However, remittances are expected to accelerate again to reach an estimated $636 billion in 2017.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- remittances
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Village Women Run Safe Water Franchises in Arsenic-Hit India, Bangladesh
Rural housewives in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where ground water has high levels of arsenic, are being encouraged to set up businesses to sell safe water to save lives in their communities and earn some income.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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Press Release: First Ever in India: MoneyOnMobile Enables Mobile Money Order via SMS
MoneyOnMobile (MOM), India's leading mobile payment solutions provider, has announced the introduction of one of its kind instant 'Mobile Money Order' service via SMS. This is the first time inIndia that "mobile money order via SMS" has been offered. MoneyOnMobile had earlier announced the launch of its app-based domestic Mobile Money Order service for customers in January 2015.
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- South Asia
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- digital payments
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MasterCard to Collaborate With the Alliance for Financial Inclusion
Today, MasterCard and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) signed a strategic partnership agreement that will enable a close collaboration within AFI’s Public-Private Dialogue Platform (PPD).
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Why Water Is Key to Beating Poverty
Extreme poverty is one of humanity's grave injustices. Across the world, more than 1 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day for all their needs -- food, housing, medicine, water, sanitation, everything. What's more astonishing is that 748 million people around the world do not have access to clean water. And 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation -- that's one out of every three individuals on the planet. Think about that for a second.
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- Agriculture, Health Care