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Pakistan: Where conspiracy theories can cost a child’s life
American parents may have the luxury of being able to buy into odd ideas about vaccines — their children are protected by others' immunity. But elsewhere, the results are tragic.
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- Education, Health Care
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Africa: Narrow Funding Base ‘Puts WHO Drug Programme At Risk’
The future of a WHO programme that ensures the quality of medicines for numerous global health NGOs and UN agencies is vulnerable unless more donors start funding it, health experts have warned.
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- Health Care
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- philanthropy
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Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money Agents Form Association
Agents handling mobile money transactions for Econet, Telecel Zimbabwe and NetOne in Zimbabwe have formed an association to advance their interests and lobby for inclusion in policy making.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Banks Scrambling to Leverage M-Pesa
Kenyan banks are reported to be scrambling to leverage Safaricom’s mobile banking platform, M-PESA, to attract more customers.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: The U.S. Post Office Banks on the Poor
People like to complain about banks popping up like Starbucks on every corner these days. But in poor neighborhoods, the phenomenon is quite the opposite: Over the past couple of decades, the banks have pulled out.
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- Uncategorized
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Safaricom Deal to Allow Diaspora to Send Money to M-Pesa Accounts
According to the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), last year’s diaspora remittances reached US$1.3 billion (KSh112 billion), up from US$1.17 billion (KSh101 billion) in 2012.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Paying for Results: Can Banks and Investors Finance Social Success?
Non-profits for everything from homelessness to pre-school have gone to investors to impose capitalist discipline on programs
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Why This Social Entrepreneur Is Paying African Women To Go To Free HIV Clinics
Nigerian women get a small payment everytime they’ve received a treatment in a clinic, proved by their geotagged doctors’ notes.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance