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After Winning Hult Prize, MBA Entrepreneurs Seek To Heal Indian Healthcare
Manish Ranjan led his business school team to victory in the Hult Prize 2014. Now, the MBA entrepreneur has grand plans to help fix India's healthcare system.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Canada to help India in building smart cities
Canada will help India in building smart cities and achieving its target of housing for all by offering wooden multi-storey housing technology, officials said here Wednesday. In a meeting with Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu here, Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast said his country's "expertise in wood-based housing technology that enables multi-storey construction and India can consider it to meet its ambitious housing targets".
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SolarAid Releases Second Impact Report on Rural Solar
This week SolarAid release their second ever Impact Report. The report is packed with information on how the charity does what they do, why they do it, the impact of that, and what they’re working towards. In the last year the charity, who's goal is to eradicate the kerosene lamp from Africa by 2020, had some great progress.
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- Energy
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- solar
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion Venture Lab Invests in Kenyan Start-up Umati Capital
Accion today announced an investment in Umati Capital, a Kenya-based lending company that provides invoice discounting and other forms of working capital financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in East Africa.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending
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How Mobile Technology Can Help End Poverty For Rural Farmers
Mobile phones are giving farmers in rural communities served by Grameen Foundation's Community Knowledge Workers access to information that helps them improve their practices and earn more for their produce.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Financial Inclusion Scheme Can Bring Unorganized Remittances Under Banking Channels
"With the help of the Jan Dhan Yojana, the reach of banking can definitely be expanded, making migrant workers aware of different services," says a senior executive from Bank of India.
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners Strengthens Global Private Equity Impact Investing Capabilities
David Wilton Joins Morgan Stanley from International Finance Corporation.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Data Specialist in Court Bid to Block Equity’s SIM Card
Equity Bank's thin-SIM mobile money transfer system faces more hurdles after a data specialist went to court seeking to block its rollout.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance