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Microcredit Impact Revisited
A few years ago, a storm was raging in the microcredit world. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer of the idea behind giving small working capital loans to groups of mainly poor women based on social collateral, had promised that microcredit would end poverty and "put it in the museums." But in an influential 2010 study, a group of researchers who spearheaded the concept of randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) in development economics, found no evidence that microcredit was making poverty history.
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9 telecoms announce interoperable mobile money
Mobile money services have gained momentum with 9 telecoms — Airtel, Etisalat, Millicom, MTN, Ooredoo, Orange, STC, Vodafone, Zain – decided to accelerate the implementation of interoperable services across Africa and the Middle East.
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38% of payments made in Swaziland are through mobile money
The Centre for Financial Regulation (CENFRI) states that MM was one of the many market payments available in the country together with eWallet, credit electronic fund transfer (EFT), debit EFT, Point of Sale (POS), paper based to name but a few.
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Mobile payments will exceed half a trillion dollars worldwide
The value of global payments via mobile devices will reach around $507 billion this year, a rise of nearly 40% year-on-year, according to Juniper Research.
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- Technology
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Opinion: How Rising Food Prices Can Bring About the End of Poverty
One of the world’s cruellest dilemmas is that the great majority of its starvation and malnutrition cases are found among farmers.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Bill Gates Wants To Launch His Own Version Of Shark Week With The Actual Deadliest Creatures
No, not lions, tigers or bears -- the deadliest creatures on earth are mosquitoes.
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Rohingya Health Crisis In West Myanmar After Aid Groups Forced Out
The United Nations says at least 40 Rohingya were killed there by Buddhist Rakhine villagers. The government denies any killings occurred.
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- South Asia
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NIH Center Sets New Goals for Global Health Research and Training
Fogarty plans to reinvigorate its efforts to train more developing-country scientists in these new areas of global health, where the field is moving and where the most interesting discoveries are yet to be made, according to the plan.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, research