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Buying with bitcoins in India
With the increasing ease of using them for purchases through mobile apps, bitcoins are quickly transitioning from being trading units to shopping currency.
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- South Asia
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- digital payments
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PRESS RELEASE: Colombia’s Credifamilia to Extend US$240 million in Mortgage Loans to Low-Income Homebuyers
New Business Call to Action member’s loans will build 20,000 homes by 2020.
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- Latin America
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VIEWPOINT: Humanitarian Cash Transfers: Six Things We Know and One (Big) Thing We Don’t
The Center for Global Development has been working with the Overseas Development Institute to look into humanitarian cash transfers, and will launch its report on September 14.
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Study Set to Harmonize Mobile Money Transfer Fees in East Africa
The central banks of four East African countries are conducting a study that will set the baseline for money transfer fees across the region.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Citibank to launch financial tech accelerator program in India
Citibank India is in talks with digital payment companies and telecom operators to kick-start its financial tech accelerator program.
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- Technology
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PRESS RELEASE: India Announces New Partnership to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for Everyone
Government of India joins the United Nations' Better Than Cash Alliance to share success stories from the world's largest financial inclusion program.
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Health innovations need much more than research
The Global Forum for Research and Innovation for Health recognised that health care innovations take more than research, but the challenges of "scaling up" and efficient collaboration were largely missed. We need to focus more on the development process following academic studies.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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This 50-Cent Paper Microscope Could ‘Democratize Science’
A couple of months ago, I received an interesting package in the mail. It looked like a standard manila envelope, but inside was a device that could quite possibly revolutionize the way we view the microscopic world. I'm referring to the Foldscope, an origami-based optical microscope that is small enough to fit inside your pocket.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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