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Mobile Money: 4 Services Tackling Wealth Inequality in Africa
While mobile money services are available in 89 countries globally, nowhere are they having more of an impact than in Africa, where 12 percent of adults have mobile money accounts, compared with 2 percent worldwide.
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- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Who’s the Next Impact Target After Goldman Sachs Snaps Up Imprint Capital?
Goldman Sachs’ move to buy San Francisco-based Imprint Capital has the small community of impact investment asset managers and dealmakers buzzing about who might next be asked to dance by a Wall Street suitor.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Is Too Much Funding Going to Social Entrepreneurs—And Too Little to Social Movements?
Are social movements more effective at bringing about large-scale change than social entrepreneurs? And if they are, why are so many funders excited about the latter compared to the former?
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- Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Will BRICS Bank Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21, following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.
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- infrastructure, lending
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Health Specialists Call for $2 Billion Global Fund for Vaccines
Global health experts called on Wednesday for the creation of a $2 billion vaccine development fund to feed a pipeline of potential new shots against priority killer diseases like Ebola, MERS and the West Nile virus.
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- Health Care
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Smartphones Can Improve Health of Poor Urban Women
With a large majority of poor urban women having access to cellphones, the device can be used to improve the health of those at risk of diabetes and other diseases during their childbearing years, says a new study.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Faith-Based Care Invisible to Health Researchers
Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet.
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- Health Care
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Citigroup Hunts for Fintech Innovators, Will a Bitcoin Firm Succeed?
American banking behemoth Citigroup earlier revealed that it has been looking at the Bitcoin’s distributed ledger technology for the last few years, and has developed three blockchains and a test currency calledCiticoin to pass through them in a bid to create a framework parallel to the Bitcoin and the blockchain.
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