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Report: Richest 1% Will Soon Own More Than the Other 99 Combined
The richest 1 percent of the population will own more than half the world's wealth by 2016, Oxfam International said in a report released as the World Economic Forum begins in Davos, Switzerland.
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MSF Slams Expensive Vaccines, Urges GSK and Pfizer To Cut Prices
The international charity Medecins Sans Frontieres urged drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer on Tuesday to slash the price of their pneumococcal vaccines to $5 per child in poor countries.
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Press Release: WorldRemit and MTN Agree to Major Mobile Money Partnership
Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have signed a global partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s Mobile Money customers.
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Liter of Light Wins Zayed Future Energy Prize
Litre of Light, a project in partnership with PepsiCo that brings cost effective solar lighting solutions to communities in need while recycling plastic bottles, has been honoured as the winning entry in the Zayed Future Energy Prize Non-Profit Organization category.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- renewable energy, solar
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Indian-Made Vaccine Approved to Fight Meningitis in Africa
A vaccine against meningitis prepared by an Indian company has been approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), paving the way for its use to eradicate the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Mobile Money Could Be a Silver Bullet for Financial Inclusion in Africa
Mobile money is shaping up to be one of the most exciting areas in mobile communications, and is quickly transforming the way in which consumers and enterprises transact.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Financial Inclusion Drive Sets Guinness World Record for Most Bank Accounts Opened in One Week
As many as 11.5 crore bank accounts have been opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, exceeding the enhanced target of 10 crore and covering 99.74 per cent of households, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today.
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ICICI, India’s Largest Private Sector Bank, Launches Banking Service on Twitter
ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank, on Monday announced the launch of banking services on Twitter, the first of its kind service, in India.
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- South Asia