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Africa Trumps World Giants in Payment Tech
Africa is ahead of the US in terms of the rate of payments innovation, while Europe is lagging way behind.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Half of World’s Rural Populations Cannot Access Health Care
More than half the population of rural areas worldwide do not have access to basic health care, with four in five rural Africans lacking services, the United Nations said Monday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Do-good’ Companies Can Do Well for Investors, Wharton Researchers Say
Impact investing is a nice idea — and for many critics that’s precisely the problem.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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DfID Accused of Heightening Inequality Through Support for Private Sector
Report by campaign group Global Justice Now points finger at Department for International Development over private health and education projects.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
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Once Idealistic, Crowdfunding Is Now an Unholy Hybrid of Retail, Investment, and Risk
Dave Bogaty is a coffee junkie. He exclusively buys his beans from a small-batch roaster in Brooklyn and scouts out local varieties in every new city he visits.
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- Investing
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New App for Managing HIV Treatment Failure
A health informatics specialist in Rwanda has developed a computer-based application to help clinicians reduce medical errors in managing HIV treatment failure.
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- Health Care, Technology
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World Malaria Day: 5 Breakthroughs in Fighting the Disease
Globally, 3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria. In 2013, only one in five African children with malaria received effective treatment, 15 million pregnant women did not receive a single dose of preventative drugs and an estimated 278 million in Africa still live in households with no insecticide-treated bed net, according to the World Health Organization.
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Press Release: Citi Supports Teach Children to Save Campaign to Help Educate And Prepare Kids for Positive Financial Futures
Citi will once again help thousands of young students across the country receive basic financial education as the bank supports American Bankers Association's (ABA) annual Teach Children to Save campaign for the 15thconsecutive year. The national program, designed to encourage local youth to develop positive financial habits early in life, marks April 24th as Teach Children to Save Day to raise awareness of the importance of teaching children about saving. Beginning in March and continuing for months after Teach Children to Save Day, hundreds of Citi volunteers will teach thousands of children in grades K-12 in classrooms and after-school programs in financial education events in major cities across the country.
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- Education
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