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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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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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Viewpoint: “Social Responsibility” in Investments is Open to Interpretation
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has a fascinating idea: People get nicer over time.
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10 New Mobile Wallet Remittance Services Launched Throughout Africa and Asia-Pacific
HomeSend and Azimo today announced the launch of new mobile wallet services in ten countries throughout Africa and Asia-Pacific – reaching millions of mobile money subscribers. Azimo customers in 20 European countries are now be able to send funds to mobile money accounts of loved ones in Armenia, Burkina Faso, Fiji, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines and Somaliland.
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Are Pharma Giants Living Up to Big Promises on Development?
he pharmaceutical industry plays a fundamental role in achieving international development targets. This was recognised in the millennium development goals (MDGs), which explicitly mention that providing access to affordable essential drugs in low- and middle-income countries has to be achieved “in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies”. Yet efforts to track progress towards the MDGs have focused mainly on government action rather than corporate contributions.
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Mozido Expands Into Africa With NettCash Acquisition
The Austin-based cloud platform mobile payments and retail engagement solutions provider announced today (July 21) that it acquired majority ownership of Zimbabwe mobile wallet company NettCash, further establishing Mozido’s foothold in Africa.
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Viewpoint: The Emperor Has No (Green) Clothes
A shiny new object is popping up in impact investment portfolios everywhere – behold, the green bond. A corporate or municipal fixed income instrument offering both market returns AND positive environmental impact, green bonds have emerged over the past six months as a significant area of new issuance. Corporations are issuing carve-out bonds whose proceeds go to infrastructure retrofits, while munis are hopping on the green bandwagon with bonds targeting a wide range of applications, from “clean and green” to affordable housing and school construction.
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Viewpoint: India Must Keep Patent Laws for Manufacture of Cheap Generic Drugs
Recently, trade ministers from 10 Asean countries, India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea gathered to negotiate a deal on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement. But, RCEP negotiations on intellectual property (IP) are at a standstill because India and the Asean countries are unwilling to trade away health by adopting IP provisions that go beyond what is required of them under international trade rules.
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