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Easypaisa, Nestle Collaborate to Facilitate Dairy Farmer Payments in Pakistan
Providing financial access to thousands of Pakistani dairy farmers as part of its mission of empowering societies, Easypaisa has collaborated with Nestlé Pakistan to make disbursement of milk collection payments swift, easy, and transparent.
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- North Africa & Near East
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An inflection point in the era of “farmer finance” for the world’s smallholders
A new study, “Inflection Point: Unlocking growth in the era of farmer finance,” suggests that while current efforts to expand financial inclusion are not sufficient to meet smallholder demand, concerted efforts around customer centricity, progressive partnerships, and smart subsidy have the potential to change the sector’s growth trajectory to best serve the world’s smallholder farmers.
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- Agriculture
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Startup Rising Africa
It’s hard to get more American than generalizing Africa as one big homogenous thing. It is, of course, a rich and diverse continent of more than 50 nations, where merely a piece of it — say from Kenya to Nigeria — is a greater distance than the entire United States. Each country, and within each country, has distinctive languages, heritages, cultures and histories.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pay-It-Forward Model Shows Potential for Microfinance in Developing Nations
Ten years ago, microfinance was celebrated with the Nobel Peace Prize for its potential to break people out of poverty. Today, the microfinance industry has grown to hundreds of institutions serving more than 150 million borrowers in the developing world, but is widely criticized for exploiting the world’s poor and, ultimately, making poverty worse.
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- lending, microfinance
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Drone Deliveries of Blood Could Transform Healthcare in Africa
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” While those words have traditionally been the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service, they may apply just as well to the world’s first drone delivery service operating at a national scale–in Rwanda. That only sounds like an odd place for such a service to take flight until you hear what these 22-lb. custom-built autonomous airplanes are delivering: blood.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazilian Doctor Crafts System Hailed As ‘Way Forward’ for Combating Zika
In Brazil, one of the biggest challenges to dealing with the Zika crisis is logistics.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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11 Social Incubators in India That Are Helping Startups & Social Enterprises Transform Lives
While starting a for-profit business is no easy task, starting a social enterprise is tougher still. Lack of funds, knowledge resources, manpower… the hurdles are endless. These social incubators mentor, guide and advise entrepreneurs, helping them navigate the choppy waters of social entrepreneurship.
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- South Asia
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- incubators
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Mobile Drought Insurance to Protect Africa’s Farmers
A mobile insurance scheme to help small-scale farmers in Kenya ensure their agricultural produce against drought and other natural disasters is spreading to other parts of Africa, as Neil Ford explains.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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