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Alibaba’s B2B Plan Could Change the World of Cross-Border Commerce
Alibaba is a huge fan of the B2B business model. The eCommerce conglomerate, which has overhauled China’s B2C online shopping industry, has launched several initiatives within the B2B market, including partnerships in other Asian economies to launch wholesale eCommerce services in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. The company has also fostered B2B eCommerce startups through its competitionrecently held in Hong Kong to promote innovation and progress in the industry.
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Eyes on the Prize: Ahmad Ashkar
If you’ve followed social entrepreneurship news even slightly in the past few years, you won’t have failed to witness the unstoppable rise of the Hult Prize.
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- Impact Assessment
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Xiaomi’s Money Market Fund Rolls Out of Beta, to Take on Alibaba and Tencent
Like Baidu and Alibaba, Xiaomi is eyeing China’s finance industry and seeing dollar signs. Today the company is officially launching a money-market fund called Huoqibao inside a new standalone app called “Xiaomi Finance.”
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Uncertainty Over Vaccine Procurement Worries Donors
Pakistan may be facing a serious interruption in vaccine supply as provinces are showing unwillingness to pay for vaccine imports, following the expiration of the current National Finance Commission (NFC) award next month.
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- Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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- philanthropy, vaccines
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Viewpoint: India’s Financial Inclusion Schemes Are Fine, but Why Is the Government Not Addressing Banks’ Quality, Cost Concerns?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team at the NDA government deserve their due share of credit for initiating efforts to bring a large segment of India’s population to insurance, pension cover at cheaper cost, even as the Congress is crying foul of repacking old UPA ideas.
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Six Nigerian Banks Unveils New m-Payment System
Mobile payment system just got more convenient in Nigeria as a consortium of six banks have inaugurated the Unified Payments’ electronic money transaction scheme known as PayAttitude.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Safaricom’s M-Pesa Now Runs on Huawei’s Mobile Money Platform
Chinese networking and telecommunications equipment and services company, Huawei has announced that its Mobile Money Platform is now supporting the M-PESA service for Safaricom.
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- Technology
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Are Small Businesses Being Overlooked in the Fight Against Poverty?
When the dust settles on the sustainable development goals, and the world knows exactly what targets will determine climate and development policy for the next 15 years, the hard work of actually implementing them will be left to individual governments.
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