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Can China’s Financial System Become More Inclusive?
Beijing is trying to make finance accessible to those traditionally denied it, with mixed results.
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- Asia Pacific
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PRESS RELEASE: Bangladesh Government joins the Better Than Cash Alliance
Aligned with the nation's Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021, the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh today announced it will accelerate its transition from cash to digital payments, marked by a new partnership with the Better Than Cash Alliance.
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: Five Indicators Show Growth in Social Purpose at World’s Largest Companies
Growth in five key indicators between 2012 and 2014 illustrate the expanding application of corporate skills and resources to solving societal challenges.
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- Impact Assessment
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Foundation Searches for Young Social Entrepreneurs
There are many success stories of social enterprises taking off, but most of these are in Manila. Proponents of a contest seeking to award social entrepreneurs hope to find the next success story in the provinces.
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Viewpoint: Investing in Health, Investing in Africa
Africa faces two key challenges to achieve its full potential. The remarkable economic progress of the last 15 years must be sustained. And, this progress must be broadened to include the many millions of people who have yet to benefit from the continent’s rising prosperity.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, vaccines
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What Does It Really Mean to Build Health Systems?
Over the past year, discussions around dealing with the Ebola outbreak to bringing cases down to zero invariably circled around the need for health systems strengthening.
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Japanese Companies Attack Neglected Diseases
Several Japanese drug companies have joined a new project to find medicines to treat two neglected parasitic diseases, Chagas and leishmaniasis.
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Kenya’s Miti Health hopes for Unreasonable access to mentors, markets
Kenyan startup Miti Health, which provides chemists with business management and supply chain software on the Android platform, hopes taking part in the Unreasonable East Africa accelerator programme in Kampala this summer will allow it to scope out Uganda as a possible expansion market while also gaining to access to investors and mentors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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