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OPINION: Mobile and Money Remittance – A Perfect Match
Mobile makes money transfers faster and more convenient and it has the potential to reduce bottlenecks in branches.
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The Major Hurdles to Impact Investing
mpact investing faces too many challenges to be adopted by institutional investors en masse, according to Hewitt EnnisKnupp.
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- Impact Assessment
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Study – Climate Change Hampers Fight Against Malaria
Unless disease-monitoring and control efforts are boosted and sustained, the disease will spread to new high-altitude areas, making populations living there particularly vulnerable because of a lack of immunity.
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10,000 Women’s Perspectives on Non-Communicable Diseases – A New Global Survey
Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action Explores Impact of NCDs on Women
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, research
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How Donated Bicycles Are Helping Save Lives in Africa
Think supporting development means giving hand outs? Think again. Done right, development means giving a hand up. Take for example Aid for Africa member World Bicycle Relief and its recently established Buffalo Bikes Ltd.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sanofi Makes Inactive Polio Vaccine Available to Poor Countries for a $1 a Dose
The tiered pricing allows 73 countries to buy Sanofi's 10-dose presentations for $1 a shot, while middle-income countries will pay $2.04-$2.38, beginning in July.
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Mobile Movies Is A Novel Way Of Collecting Data In Off-The-Grid Areas
In the late 1960s, the British Ministry of Technology turned buses into mobile cinemas that toured the country and screened films promoting modern production techniques. Half a century later, a Singapore-based startup is reviving the concept to reach rural communities throughout Southeast Asia.
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- Asia Pacific
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Staying the course – Obama’s 2015 proposal for US foreign aid
Don’t be fooled by U.S. President Barack Obama’s relatively flat foreign aid budget request for fiscal year 2015.
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