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Kiva Zip and Startup Incorporation Service Join Forces
If you’re running a social enterprise–or any startup, for that matter–two of the headaches you face are incorporating and raising early funding.
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Ethiopia Offers 100% FDI Facility to India for Healthcare
Ethiopia offered 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) facility to India for setting up hospitals and other healthcare facilities in Ethiopia. The host country will acquire land for Indian entrepreneurs and offer other incentives and tax facilities as well.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Zimbabwe Cellular Regulator Cancels Contract of Third-Largest Operator Telecel
The Zimbabwean government has cancelled the operating licence for Telecel Zimbabwe, the country’s third largest mobile operator by subscriber base.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crowdfunding Raises Millions for Nepal Earthquake Victims
If you want to measure the constructive power of social media, look no further than the crowdfunding campaigns for Nepal earthquake victims, which have proliferated in the days since disaster struck the nation.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- crowdfunding, philanthropy
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Viewpoint: The Evolving Microfinance Revolution Has Yet to Run Its Full Course
Forty years ago, before microfinance was called microcredit, before it even had a name, I made $50 loans to 800 Guatemalan farmers in the form of six bags of 12-24-12 fertilizer, which dramatically increased their yields on the plots of maize and beans they cultivated.
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Viewpoint: Nepal Response Shows Why Donor-Advised Funds Are a Boon to Philanthropy
In the days immediately after Americans learned of the devastating earthquake in Nepal, they began to send millions of dollars in donations to organizations prepared to put disaster-relief boots on the ground in that historic Himalayan kingdom.
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CNET Founder Eyes Bitcoin Wallet in India
From having founded the pioneering digital publishing platform CNET, selling it for $1.8 billion to CBS and filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy subsequently, Halsey Minor — an American serial tech entrepreneur from the 1990s dotcom boom era — has seen it all. His next big bet is digital finance, which he describes as the "last frontier of internet", with all other consumer-facing segments having been already tapped.
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