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GE’s Immelt Urges More Private Investment in Africa Health Care
General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt urged private investors to provide more funding for health care in African nations, where government-run services are overstretched.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria: Partnership to Spur Local Mobile Money Growth
A joint statement by both companies said CWG would now power the MTN mobile commerce platform, which is designed mainly for small scale financial institutions.
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Starved of cash, half of India awaits a mobile money revolution
A service like Vodafone's M-Pesa could transform lives for India's unbanked.
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- South Asia
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Fraud targeting mobile money agents in Kenya rises as use of service grows
The fight to eliminate mobile money fraud in Kenya is far from being won as fraudsters devise new schemes targeting agents and subscribers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tiny Loans Are Big Business Once Again in India
Lending to India’s poor is a good business once again.
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Filipino coffee queen turns into social entrepreneur
Pacita “Chit” Juan, a champion of Philippine coffee brands, has diversified not only to other businesses, but also to other causes, like creating jobs for the poor.
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Opinion – Mobile Money Interoperability: Finally on the Horizon?
Now, here’s the most interesting development, in my opinion.
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Delhi’s air quality worse than one of world’s most polluted cities Beijing, data shows
In mid-January, air pollution in Beijing was so bad that the government issued urgent health warnings and closed four major highways, prompting the panicked buying of air filters and donning of face masks. But in New Delhi, where pea-soup smog created what was by some measurements even more dangerous air, there were few signs of alarm in the country's boisterous news media, or on its effervescent Twittersphere.
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