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Rich nations study details of massive insurance program to ease Third World climate change damages
Countries already bearing the brunt of extreme weather events are cautiously optimistic about a new insurance scheme designed by the world's wealthiest nations to protect about 400 million people in the world's most vulnerable communities.
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- Environment
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- climate change, insurance
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Indonesia to Unleash Loan Funds as Micro-lending Rates Cut
Indonesia wants to unleash 30 trillion rupiah ($2.3 billion) of new loans for small businesses and halve some bank micro lending rates to help revive an economy running at its slowest pace in five years.
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- Asia Pacific
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After five-year hiatus, mutual funds turn to investing in India’s microfinance companies
Mutual funds have started investing in debt issuances of microfinance companies after a five-year hiatus.
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: FINCA Releases Case Study Outlining Ways to Drive Financial Inclusion Through Mobile Technology
FINCA’s experience in Tanzania offers lessons learned for development practitioners
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ericsson partners with Verifone on mobile money in emerging markets
Kit giant Ericsson has announced a partnership with Verifone Mobile Money to offer its customers a broader range of mobile payment tools for emerging markets.
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- Environment, Technology
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Habitat Destruction Is Exposing Us to a Dangerous New Form of Malaria
If you’re not a doctor, you probably think of malaria as a single disease. That’s not quite right. There are several parasites that cause what we call malaria—likePlasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium malariae—and each brings a slightly different form of the disease. Now, in a northeastern corner of Malaysia, doctors are concerned about the rapid expansion of yet another malaria-inducing parasite named Plasmodium knowlesi. Incidence of the parasite increased tenfold between 2004 and 2011, and many public-health researchers are worried things are going to get worse.
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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Sustainable Innovation, Minus the Sticker Shock?
What do solar-powered hearing aids, a subscription service for baby clothes and mobile technology for farmers in East Africa all have in common?
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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Press Release: New Formulation of HIV Treatment To Save More Children’s Lives – UNICEF and UNAIDS
Children affected by HIV and AIDS will benefit from the decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration to grant approval to a new antiretroviral formulation that can be mixed with food to make it easier for children living with HIV to take the life-saving medicines, UNAIDS and UNICEF said today.
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- Health Care
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