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Airtel, Tigo to Launch a Mobile Money Interoperability Pilot in Rwanda
Airtel Rwanda and Tigo Rwanda, a subsidiary of Millicom, have announced a partnership to pilot interoperability between their two mobile money transfer service platforms.
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Viewpoint: Larry Summers: How Finance Can Fight Disease Epidemics
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, is a former treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council in the White House. He is writing occasional posts, to be featured on Wonkblog, about issues of national and international economics and policymaking.
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Innovations in Systems Thinking – 5 Things the World Can Learn From SOCAP15
The biggest challenges of our time do not require patchwork solutions, innovative smartphone apps, or miracle pills, instead they require systems-level innovations that can tackle the root cause of the world's most serious issues.
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Chinese Firm Says Plans to “Mass Produce” Ebola Vaccine
A Chinese firm plans to mass produce a military-developed vaccine against Ebola, even as the epidemic which killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa beings to fade.
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BlackRock Launches Global Impact Equity Fund
BlackRock has launched a global impact equity fund aiming to invest in 'measurable social and environmental outcomes' at a time when such criteria are becoming increasingly important to investors.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Student Entrepreneurs Win Hult Prize With Radical Early Childhood Education Model
Juan Diego Prudot was successful at a very young age. With the abundant opportunities afforded those of means, he has chosen the path of a social entrepreneur in an effort to improve early childhood education around the world.
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Over 8 Lakh Medical Shops to Be Shut on October 14th to Protest Online Sale of Drugs
As fast growing e-pharmacies eat into the incomes of lakhs of small chemist outlets, nearly 850,000 of them will remain shut on 14 October to protest against the online sale of drugs.
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Morgan Stanley Introduces Catholic-Focused Investing Program
The influence of Pope Francis’ recent visit to New York is being felt at Morgan Stanley (MS). The wirehouse said early Friday that it is rolling out a tool kit for financial advisors based on Catholic values.
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