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Uber Partners with Discovery Health to Deliver Flu Vaccinations in South Africa
Uber has partnered with Discovery Health to provide South Africans with access to flu vaccinations directly through its app.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation, vaccines
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OPINION: Financial Education Is Not Enough in Today’s Economy: We Need Financial Capability
Knowledge and opportunities are part and parcel of financial capability: the combination of financial education and financial inclusion via safe and affordable financial products.
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- Education
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More businesses in Kenya adopt cashless payments
More businesses in Kenya are embracing cashless payments as security of the system is enhanced and Kenyans see the benefits of using it.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Kenya’s million dollar bitcoin startup BitPesa expands to Tanzania
Kenyan bitcoin startup BitPesa is expanding to neighboring Tanzania about a year after it launched its mobile-friendly digital currency exchange.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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JPMorgan Chase says $34 million already committed to Detroit
One year after pledging to invest $100 million in Detroit over five years, JPMorgan Chase & Co. says $34 million has so far been committed in the Motor City.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Silicon Valley’s Clean Tech Investors Eyeing Sustainable Food, Experts Say
Food is becoming the epicenter of the growing responsible investment movement in the San Francisco Bay area's Silicon Valley, panelists said during the impact investing discussion at Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Sustainable Food Institute last week.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- impact investing
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Uber Battles Locals for Future of African Taxis
In the traffic-clogged, potholed streets of Kenya’s capital city, there is a battle waging for the future of the African taxi ride that is pitting local startups eager to become the “Uber of Kenya” against, well, Uber.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Vodacom’s M-Pesa Growth Still Not Reaching South Africa
Vodacom identified mobile money service m-Pesa as a growth engine but its 2014/15 results showed this to be truer internationally than in South Africa.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, savings, telecommunications
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