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Martin Shkreli Announces Turnaround on 5,000% Price Rise for Drug
Turing Pharmaceuticals, a small company that generated outrage by raising the cost of an old anti-infective drug by more than 5,000%, said it would roll back that increase to make sure it remains affordable.
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Small Foundations Are Embracing Impact Investing
Paperwork and bureaucracy aren’t just pains in the backside of everyone working at every small business or smaller nonprofit. They’re also barriers to entry — for new people, new ideas and even new sources of capital.Crowdfunding might help level the playing field, but even that has a new set of challenges and limitations. When it comes to improving our cities, who knows how many opportunities to try out new approaches or scale up existing models are falling through the cracks?
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Novo Nordisk Joins Business Call to Action with Diabetes Awareness Campaign
The Business Call to Action (BCtA) is pleased to announce that Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company with more than 90 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care, has joined BCtA with an initiative to improve access to safe and affordable diabetes care for the working poor in Kenya. The company aims to reach 1.5 million people with a grassroots awareness campaign involving community leaders, healthcare workers and peer educators on diabetes risk factors, the importance of early detection and proper treatment of the disease.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crowdfunding: Ubuntu Finance in South Africa
Many South Africans dream of getting their concepts off the ground, but they lack the funding to make it reality. Too often their ideas are put on the back-burner for ‘one day’ – when they have accumulated enough wealth; when they finally secure that loan; or when the right investor shows up carrying a suitcase filled with cash.
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e-Paisa Starts Accepting Wallet Payments from Paytm, Mobikwik
Payments service provider, Paytm, Mobikwik and Citrus haver tied up with e-Paisa, to enable easy payment option to customers to pay at retail outlets like grocery stores, restaurants and other small brick and mortar merchants through their mobile wallets.
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Entrepreneurs Are the Current and Future Solution for Sustainable Global Economic Development
When drawing up plans to help stimulate the economic development of new and emerging economies, the United Nations previously looked to multinational operations that could open new plants and offices in specific countries. However, with the ongoing changes in the business environment, the realization is that these large corporations are no longer the source for job creation and have recently been focused on lean operations and downsizing staff.
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Viewpoint: Bank-Telco Distrust Inhibits South Africa’s Financial Inclusion
Although partnerships between banks and telcos are essential in enabling financial inclusion to billions of people in Africa, the egos among the institutions are hindering such partnerships, especially in SA.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Is the Growing Middle Class Affecting the Emerging Markets?
The world's middle class is growing. According to Pew Research Center, 63 million people entered Latin America's middle class over the last decade; it is estimated that Nigeria's middle class grew by 600 percent between 2000 and 2014.
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- Education, Health Care
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