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Women entrepreneurs struggle for funding in India
A majority of women entrepreneurs in India cannot access institutional finance for many reasons, including the fact that fewer of them have title rights on property that can be used as collateral.
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American Express Spotlights the Issue of Financial Exclusion in Davis Guggenheim Doc “Spent”
Part of a larger Amex initiative to address financial inclusion, Spent: Looking for Change reveals the dismal state of basic banking service access for many Americans.
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Reserve Bank of India to issue much-awaited banking licenses to reshape banking sector
The next generation of banking structure will be the first step to a thousand mile journey to make India the third largest banking economy in the world. The issue of "on-tap" new banking licenses will prove to be a game changer for the Indian banking industry.
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NGOs Launch New Tool to Map Water and Sanitation in Kenya’s Largest Slum
With an estimated 1.2-million residents, Kibera is Africa’s second largest and one of the biggest slums in the world with some of the poorest living conditions
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Improving Global Health, One Text at a Time
AMREF Kenya receives matching grant for mHealth Project
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$23M Award at Notre Dame Fights Malaria and Dengue Fever
The grant is the second largest award to a single grant proposal in Notre Dame's history.
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- Education, Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: First Access and Vodacom Tanzania Ink Financial Inclusion Deal
Partnership offers financial institutions the ability to purchase instant risk scores from First Access based on prepaid mobile phone records.
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Kopo Kopo Goes International, Ready to Integrate Mobile Money Payments from Merchants Around the World
In an exclusive interview with TechMoran, Ben Lyon of Kopo Kopo said that 2014 is the year of partnering with payment providers to build and manage merchant networks.
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