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M-Pesa Opens Up to 3rd Party Developers in Kenya as Safaricom Launches API
When mobile payments and banking come to mind, one most likely thinks of headline-grabbing industry leaders such as Apple, Barclays and Visa. However, the reality is a bit different. The distinction of largest uptake of mobile payment adoption actually belongs to Kenya, and the M-Pesa payment solution.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Snakebite Antidote is Running Out
The world is running out of one of the most effective snakebite treatments, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, warn experts.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Social Entrepreneur Interview Series: Meet Jennifer Nantale of Nyaka
Every day, social entrepreneurs from around the world are seizing opportunities others miss to improve broken systems, innovate and develop solutions to change society for the better. Over the past few months, I've traveled to India, Brazil, Southeast Asia, East Africa, Western Europe and the U.S. to visit 50 NGOs and social enterprises with my team at Epic Foundation.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Big Data in the Backroads of Africa Will Help Feed the Hungry
To do good, gathering donations from good-hearted people isn’t enough. The most efficient and effective way to bring about positive change is through business, partnering the profit motive with a project that helps improve lives.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FMCG Giant Reckitt Benckiser, Hindustan Unilever Slug It Out in Swachh Bharat Drive
Global FMCG giant RB is taking the fight to HUL through its Banega Swachh India campaign. Both companies have high stakes in PM Narendra Modi's clean India initiative as they believe they can drive change in con sumer behaviour through the programme, which will eventually lead to higher sales volumes of soaps and cleaners.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public policy
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Viewpoint: Costly Cash
Suppose there were a way of getting money to some of the world’s poorest people precisely when they need it. Suppose, too, that the flow hardly ever diminished, even during a global financial crisis. Finally, suppose the cash could not be creamed off by corrupt local officials. Surely every right-minded government in the world would want to encourage this and make it as cheap and easy as possible?
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- Uncategorized
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MasterCard Takes Fintech Incubator Global
MasterCard has launched Start Path Global, a globally available partnership programme for retail and fintech start-ups.
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- Technology
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- fintech, incubators
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Viewpoint: Rural Healthcare Is in Shambles
The revelation that about 68 per cent of posts of specialist doctors at the government’s community health centres (CHC) in rural areas are lying vacant does not create any surprise. This is according to the latest statistics put out by the Union health ministry. The inability of the CHCs to attract and retain specialists has been known for a long time. Never have these centres of rural healthcare had sufficient number of medical personnel with specialised expertise.
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- Health Care
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