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Is Equity Crowdfunding The Key To More International Startup Hubs?
Is crowdfunding the secret to creating more Silicon Valley-like tech hubs around the world? Crowdfunder CEO Chance Barnett argues yes.
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Indian Microfinance Body Seeks RBI Nod for Self-regulatory Status
Last year, the RBI had released guidelines on self-regulation by MFIs in accordance with the recommendations of the Malegam panel set up by the apex bank earlier to look into regulatory aspects of micro-lending following the Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis of 2010.
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- South Asia
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- governance, microfinance
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Saving for Change: How Small Sums Drive Big Advances in Cambodia
Many rural villagers cannot access financial services from microfinance institutions (MFIs) despite the growth in the sector.
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- Asia Pacific
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Sustainable Investing Comes of Age in South Africa
In recent years, the idea of analysing companies using more than just financial indicators has moved into the mainstream.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban ‘Neonic’ Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health
Some of history’s greatest advances in public health – especially in regions plagued by insect borne diseases – have come from the judicious use of pesticides to kill or repel the insect vector before it can infect human populations. Because the market for public health pesticides is relatively small, however, most of these vital chemistries were developed for larger agricultural uses. Unfortunately, that source of new products is increasingly under threat from shortsighted environmentalism and the European embrace of “precautionary” regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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New ITU standard enables health data exchange
Following calls for increased global coordination of standards enabling e-health, ITU has offered first stage approval to an important specification enabling an exchange of multimedia health data between a health provider, a controlling function and patient.
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- Health Care
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Focus Heightens on Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Nigeria is better off preventing diseases than attempting cures on a continent with some of the highest disease burdens, say experts. This comes as the first indigenous vaccine manufacturer, Innovative Vaccines, launched in Nigeria.
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Addressing financial exclusion in Pakistan
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has adopted a multi-pronged and long-term strategy to address financial exclusion through structured policy and regulatory actions besides market-development interventions.
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- governance, microfinance