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Harvard Receives Largest-Ever Donation
A $350 million gift pledged to Harvard University's School of Public Health is the largest single donation in the university's long history, officials said, and will help bolster research in several key areas including global pandemics.
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- philanthropy, research
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Dengue fever vaccine shown to be significantly effective in Latin America clinical studies
Sanofi Pasteur announced last week that it has completed the third phase of its clinical study for a vaccine candidate in Latin America aimed at eliminating dengue fever.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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M-Pesa To Monitise: How Necessity Is Pushing FinTech Innovation From Africa To The UK
Necessity is often said to be the driver of innovation. Nowhere is this clearer than with the mobile-phone based money transfer and microfinancing service, M-Pesa, in Kenya, wherein the need to provide financial services to the under-banked population resulted in a truly transformative fintech solution.
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Kenya’s telecom regulator moves to increase competition in money transfer business
Communications Authority of Kenya ( CAK) has said it will not reverse its decision to allow Equity Bank to introduce mobile money transfer services despite protests from integrated communications service provider, Safaricom.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Payments Pioneer: I’m Betting on Bitcoin For Emerging Markets
For mobile payments pioneer and venture capitalist Carol Realini, the financial world is divided into three camps: those who believe in bitcoin, those who don’t understand it and those have yet to consider or study its technology.
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Mexico summit pledges to serve microfinance clients better
The 17th Microcredit Summit held in Merida, Mexico, last week discussed ways to better serve the next generation of clients and promote client-centred microfinance.
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- Latin America
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These Off Grid Solar Lights Are Made By The Communities Who Use Them
Liter of Light works with women's cooperatives to make solar lights from simple parts, instead of sending them solar lights that don't work the way they want them.
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- Energy, Environment
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Social enterprise Incubator Villgro invests in three start-ups
Social enterprise Incubator Villgro has invested in three startups, marking its first set of funding this fiscal year. It is targeting to invest in 25-30 more startups by the end of the fiscal year. Ujjeewan Healthcare, Aindra Systems and Scholowiz Educational Solutions, all early-stage companies, have secured funding from Villgro.
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- South Asia
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- impact investing