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The Future of Mobile Money: Building Seamless Financing Options Through Clean Energy
Clean energy in developing economies rests with a seamless, ubiquitous, easy-to-use financing platform based on energy and mobile money. Wireless credit is a very important piece of that platform.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy, solar
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Viewpoint: McKinsey & Company Starts Its Own Version of Bain’s Bridgespan
The announcement that Helene Gayle, the retiring CEO of CARE, was going to be inaugural CEO of the McKinsey Social Initiative struck us as noteworthy for reasons that other press outlets really haven’t covered.
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Ebola Rapid Diagnostic Kit Developed by UK Scientists in Sierra Leone
A rapid Ebola diagnostic kit similar to a pregnancy kit has been developed by British military scientists and NHS medics in Sierra Leone.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Myanmar, Microfinance Stagnates Due to Tough Rules
The domestic microfinance industry is being held back by a number of constraints on funding, preventing more small-scale loans from being disbursed, according to industry insiders.
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance, regulations
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Social Investment Problems Include ‘Too Much Hype and Hubris and Not Enough Transparency’ Says Report
Social investment in the UK requires less hype, more transparency from lenders and more focus on the needs of charities and social enterprises if it is going to succeed, according to a commission of thinkers and practitioners in the world of social finance.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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WHO, UNOPS Sign Agreement to Scale-Up Partnership in Africa’s Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify collaboration on sustainable management of health programs and projects in Africa.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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Think Bigger: Social Entrepreneurship’s Critical Need for Accelerators
Prossy Sebunya has a passion for clean cook stoves -- a technology that’s critical in third-world countries, where fuel is an expensive commodity, wood fires lead to deforestation and unhealthy conditions prevent sanitary food preparation.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Chinese Bank Becomes Major Headache for U.S.
Another day, it seems, brings another new member to China's latest big international initiative: a new development bank for Asia.
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- South Asia