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Microfinance Industry Back on Growth Path
After going through a crisis period, the country's microfinance industry has returned to the growth phase, especially in the light of stable regulatory framework, says a report.
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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A VC for VCs: New Seattle accelerator hopes to launch investing firms in emerging markets
The same team that launched the do-good venture capital firm Unitus Seed Fund in 2012 is at it again, announcing a new accelerator program that plans to help launch venture capitalists in developing parts of the world.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- venture capital
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Founder of Newly Licensed Payments Bank Paytm Plans to Bring Half a Billion Indian Users to Platform by 2020
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder of Paytm, was one of the two individuals, besides nine other entities, to be granted a payments bank licence. He believes that being a payments bank, Paytm can now provide its customers with a three-step life cycle comprising pay, buy and save.
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Why Kickstarter and Indiegogo Won’t Go Into Equity Crowdfunding
Now that anyone can now buy shares in a private company through an equity-crowdfunding platform, interested investors are wondering who will operate the online share-buying sites. Some observers have suggested that rewards-based crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo will enter the market, taking advantage of their experience in other parts of the crowdfunding marketplace.
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Global Child Mortality Rates Show Steep Drop
Global mortality rates for children under five have fallen by more than half since 1990, when the Millennium Development Goals for addressing effects of poverty were established, a U.N. interagency group reported Wednesday.
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- Health Care
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$30 Million Committed to Australian Impact Investment Fund
Superannuation fund HESTA has committed $30 million to create an impact investment fund managed by Social Ventures Australia, which is said to be the single largest investment of its kind in Australia to date.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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ISWA Calls Open Dumps a ‘Global Health Emergency’
A new report by the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is highlighting the ‘global health emergency’ affecting tens of millions of people in developing countries who lack good sanitation infrastructure.
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Glo Xchange Rolls Out Super Agent Mobile Money Network in Nigeria
Globacom will from today commercially roll out Glo Xchange super agents’ network that will drive mobile money implementation across Nigeria in partnership with four leading deposit money banks, bringing 80 million unbanked Nigerians into the formal financial sector.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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