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Haiti launches anti-cholera vaccination campaign
The Haitian government along with international partners including the World Health Organization launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people in vulnerable areas of the impoverished Caribbean country.
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- Latin America
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Serum Institute, Bilthovan to slash polio vaccine prices
Pune-based Serum Institute of India Ltd and its Netherlands unit Bilthoven Biologicals BV on Tuesday announced about a 50% reduction in the price of their polio vaccines for the United Nation’s global polio eradication programme.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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Does India Need Its Own ‘Impact’ Investors?
Indian entrepreneurs complain that India’s venture capital scene, particularly for “impact” investments, is limited.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Key Drivers of Financial Innovation in Zimbabwe
Financial innovation can be defined as the act of creating and then popularising new financial instruments, technologies, institutions, markets, processes and business models, including the new application of existing ideas in a different market context.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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American Bankers Association and Operation HOPE to collaborate to maximize youth and adult empowerment
The American Bankers Association and Operation HOPE announced a new partnership to expand financial literacy empowerment, economic energy, and good credit for youth and adults over the next two years.
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- Impact Assessment
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Matching capital with ‘space’ in unlocking Nigeria’s microinsurance potential
Nigeria prepares to unlock its microinsurance potential given the country’s huge population of 170 million people and a demographic structure leaning towards the mass poor.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microlender’s contest to boost Philly-region small business
Lend for Philly is a contest designed for college students. But the ultimate winner, say its organizers, will be small businesses.
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- microfinance
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As Myanmar opens up, will mobile money emerge?
It’s an unprecedented moment in Myanmar’s history as the country opens up to financing, technology and connectivity. Will mobile payments play a role in transforming the country?
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- Asia Pacific
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- mobile finance