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Headline: Financial Inclusion: Banking on Retail Agents in Nigeria
Given the high percentage of the unbanked population in the country, there have been a lot of initiatives targeted at bringing more people into the banking system. Today, Nigerian banks are increasingly developing products that support the financial inclusion initiative of the Bankers’ Committee, one of which is retail agency
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Kenya leads African peers in financial access
Kenya has taken a great leap forward to enjoy better financial access compared to her peers in the continent. The country claims the second highest level of financial inclusion only after South Africa.
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OPINION: Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop
Impact investing has captured the world’s imagination. Just six years after the Rockefeller Foundation coined the term, the sector is booming. An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. Giving Pledge members described impact investing as the “hottest topic” at their May 2012 meeting, and Prime Minister David Cameron extolled the potential of the sector at the most recent G8 summit.
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- Impact Assessment
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M-Pesa to start pilot on cash out services, looking at pan-India network
M-Pesa, the mobile wallet service of telecom major Vodafone, plans to launch out-cash services. A pilot programme will be launched soon, under which customers will be able to withdraw money from M-Pesa outlets.
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UK aid watchdog tells DfID to focus on quality of healthcare in Kenya
A government watchdog has called on the Department for International Development (DfID) to do more to improve the quality of care at Kenyan health facilities after recording patient complaints of petty corruption and "physical and emotional abuse" by staff.
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Latrine numbers up
The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says.
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The quest for WHO prequalification by pharmaceutical firms
Annually, millions of patients in resource-limited countries receive life-saving medicines that are purchased by or through international procurement agencies such as World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNITAID and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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Advancing Breastfeeding: The Power of the Network
Chinese celebrity Ma Yili has over 50 million social media fans, and now she’s using her influence to promote breastfeeding in her home country, where only 28 percent of babies are exclusively breastfed. The “10m2 of Love” campaign Ma is publicizing includes a mobile app to help Chinese women locate and use public breastfeeding spaces. From China to Pakistan, Venezuela and Viet Nam, countries are experimenting with new approaches to promote a life saving, natural practice under threat in the modern world.
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