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Facebook Money Transfer Service Expected to Benefit African Users
Digital finance experts in Kenya say African users will increasingly benefit from the introduction of a money transfer service onto Facebook's instant messaging platform.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Viewpoint: Give Women Credit for Work to Strengthen Families
The adage -- "a woman's work is never done" -- exists for a reason. Whether it's inside or outside the home, women's labor sustains families. How we assess women's work has long been a contested issue. In the developing world, it's especially important.
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- South Asia
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The African Union Has Launched Its Centre for Disease Control to Tackle Epidemics Like Ebola
Efforts are underway by The African Union (AU) to establish a pan-African Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (African CDC) by mid-2015, a development that can bolster the continent’s desire to transform its health practices and promote the welfare of its people.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regulation Tripping Up Ghana’s Mobile Money Sector
The mobile financial services sector in Ghana has not yet fully lived up to its potential and is being held back from full development by regulatory hurdles, a new report says.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Boon for Bitcoin, UK to Regulate Digital Currency Exchanges
Britain took a significant step towards becoming a global bitcoin hub on Wednesday as the government announced it would regulate digital currencies for the first time by applying anti-money laundering rules to exchanges.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- regulations
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Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton Promise, Charity Did Not Disclose Donors
In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence.
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- Health Care
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- philanthropy
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New Youth Agenda At the World Bank? Readers and Development Partners Weigh In
Can World Bank staff loosen their ties and engage with young people in a meaningful, productive way? Youth champions and development professionals hope that — if approved by senior management — a new team focused on youth will put an emphasis on listening more to young people to incorporate their ideas into the core of the global financial institution’s work.
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- Education
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Charity Attacks Gilead Over Hepatitis C Drug Restrictions
Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has accused U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc GILD.O of restricting access to its breakthrough hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in developing countries as it tries to protect profit margin in wealthier nations.
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- Health Care
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- philanthropy, vaccines