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Walmart Taps Alipay to Bring Mobile Payments to 25 China Stores
The world of mobile payments in China keeps heating up.
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- South Asia
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Press Release: SOCAP Open Is Live, Accepting Session Ideas for SOCAP15
SOCAP, the world’s largest conference for social enterprise and impact investing, launches SOCAP Open and is accepting session ideas for SOCAP15, now through June 7th.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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India Needs to Improve Healthcare As Part of Global Millennium Development Goals: WHO
India and many other southeast Asian countries need to improve their record on public healthcare, the WHO said today as it warned that the world will fall short in achieving the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on many indicators by the end of this year.
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Lessons From Liberia Prompt a Renewed Call for Global Health Security
Although Ebola has finally been contained in Liberia, there is much to learn from this latest outbreak. Health officials are taking heed of the valuable lessons gained from the successes, and more importantly, the failures, of this most recent epidemic.
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This Bank of America Exec Helped Create a Virtual Mentoring Program to Connect Women Around the World
She spent one week in South Africa, and one week in Belfast, Ireland. Both trips were with different women, but the purpose was the same: To mentor businesswomen across the globe.
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How NGOs Can Help Unleash Cuban Remittances
Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean set a new record high last year, at a total of $65.4 billion, the Inter-American Development Bank revealed Tuesday.
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Viewpoint: Philanthropy Starts After Profits Are Tallied
Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic. Far from being in denial about it, many wealthy people fret over rising inequality these days, in public and in private.
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Colombia Water Works: Turning Trash Into Cisterns
For more than a decade, Cecilia Uribe has relied on a higher power to provide a basic utility: water. In her sprawling neighborhood on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital, municipal water only ran twice a month, she explained, “so I would just wait for my God to make it rain.”
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- Agriculture
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