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Agriculture Insurance Turning Around Farmers’ Lives in East Africa
Jackie Kiconco sits in her garden with her right hand supporting her chin. Her eyes are gazing across the maize garden that she had planted but because of late rainfall, the seeds failed to germinate.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Upwardly Mobile: The Power of a United Approach to African Payment Innovation
The growing use of banking services in South Africa is driven by a national rollout of social security debit cards and strong economic growth across finance, real estate and business services sectors. According to the Banking Association of South Africa, just under a quarter of the adult population (23.5%) remains unbanked.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Intellectual Ventures Teams Up with GE to Fight Malaria
Intellectual Ventures’s Global Good division has teamed up with General Electric to create a new test for malaria that’s designed to spot even the parasites that cause the disease, even in cases that would otherwise be missed by traditional testing.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: Smaller Banks Better Suited for India’s Financial Inclusion Drive; Modi Should Have Waited
There are too many takers for licences for small-sized banks. A total of 113 companies knocked the doors of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with applications when the deadline expired at the close of business hours on 3 February. The list (see here) includes both the biggies and tiny names.
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- South Asia
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Going Mobile in Sub-Saharan Africa to Save Lives – And Change The Future
Mobile technology is rapidly transforming communications and culture in Africa. More than half the continent’s population has a mobile device, up from just one percent in 15 years, according the United Nations. Of course, cities and developed regions are as connected as their counterpart elsewhere, but remote and undeveloped areas where people live on little more than a dollar a day are usually poorly served. That is beginning to change, and healthcare providers are using technology to improve and save lives.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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For MFIs in India, Transition to Small Banks Could Be Arduous
The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to create small finance banks could be a game-changer for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the country.
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- South Asia
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Deserted New Delhi Hospitals Sour India’s Healthcare Dream
Two state-of-the-art public hospitals in New Delhi are barely operational years after they officially opened - not for lack of funding but because officials did not spend the millions of dollars allocated to treat heart and kidney patients.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Mobile Money Market Could Grow to $1.5 Billion by 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa is adopting mobile financial services at a pace seen in few other places, presenting banks and mobile-network operators (MNOs) with a set of strategic choices that will go a long way toward determining their success in the region.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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