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Indonesia Turns to Technology to Build its Banking Sector
Indonesia is hoping to get more of its 250 million citizens using formal financial services, and it’s looking to some of the creative tech startups that are already one step ahead for some assistance.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Why India’s e-commerce startups are going mobile-only
E-commerce companies in India are ignoring the PC and going straight to mobile in the country’s young, but rapidly growing online marketplace.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Norway’s $900 billion sovereign wealth fund to slash coal investments
Norway has made a big move toward dropping investments in coal companies by its massive $900 billion sovereign wealth fund because of their impact on climate change.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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As Antibiotic Resistance Spreads, WHO Plans Strategy To Fight It
The world is losing some of the most powerful tools in modern medicine. Antibiotics are becoming less and less effective at fighting infections. The problem has gotten so bad that some doctors are starting to ponder a "post-antibiotic world."
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- Education, Health Care
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New Mothers Get A New Kind Of Care In Rural Nigeria
How do you help a country struggling to provide quality health care, particularly to its rural citizens?More doctors would be great. New and better clinics would help. But in some places, community health workers are an important part of the solution.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why India’s farm sector is getting increasing attention from impact investors
Impact investors are now turning their focus to agriculture and its allied fields, after a decade of attention to microfinance, financial inclusion and healthcare.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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OPINION: Why turning the Postal Service into a bank isn’t nearly as ridiculous as it sounds
This remains a tremendous idea to relieve economic inequality and preserve an important public-sector ladder into the middle class; and continued agitation just might get it done.
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- Uncategorized
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PRESS RELEASE: In India, MobiKwik partners with ICICI Bank to let customers add cash to their mobile wallet at branches
ICICI Bank will collect cash payments from MobiKwik customers across more than 4000 branches in the country.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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- mobile finance
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