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Finance Minister Will Have A Golden Moment To End Financial Repression
As I sit down to write this, a letter comes to my desk. Handwritten by a 90-year-old man, the letter seeks help from Mint’s insurance expert in resolving a fraud carried out by an insurance company agent who sold a policy for his grand-daughter, changing her status from a US citizen to a non-resident Indian and promising returns in dollars.
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- South Asia
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Kenya: Equity’s SIM Technology to Go Live By March – James Mwangi
EQUITY Bank plans to officially launch its mobile money platform Equitel - the trading brand of its telecoms subsidiary Finserve Africa - next quarter, chief executive James Mwangi said yesterday.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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USAID Seeks Help From ‘Maker Movement’ in Ebola Outbreak
On a recent Friday, several inventors gathered in downtown Washington with suitcases and coolers full of prototypes designed to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
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Merck Partners With NewLink To Speed Up Work On Ebola Vaccine
It's now Goliath versus Goliath in the quest for an Ebola vaccine.Until now, the two leading candidates for a vaccine to protect against the Ebola virus were being led by global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline on the one hand, and a tiny company in Ames, Iowa, that was virtually unknown, on the other.
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- Health Care
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New Policy Could Unlock the Gates Foundation, Bring Transparency to Research
One of the biggest private foundations in the world just took a step toward becoming more open with the research it funds.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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China’s War On Malaria: A Tiny Nation Pushed Into A Test-Tube
Artepharm, a Cantonese medical drugs laboratory, has been engaged for the past few years in a remarkable venture against malaria, a health scourge that has long plagued humanity and has been responsible for every second human death since the Middle Ages.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Tunnel Lab: A Social Enterprise that Equips Impoverished Brazilian Youths With Technological and Entrepreneurial Knowledge
Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth most populous in the world, but it provides only a minor fraction of the technological innovation that drives economic growth in other countries. A new social enterprise called Tunnel Lab is trying to change this dynamic by introducing a love for technology in many of the country’s poorest favelas.
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- Education
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- Latin America
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Dubai-Based Social Enterprise Shines Bright For Africa
It started with a plea to help 60,000 orphans in the company’s care.The children, who were being looked after in Zimbabwean orphanages set up by the telecoms operator Econet Wireless, could not study at night because there was no power and lighting, and many were getting sick from breathing in the chemicals emitted from candles.
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- Energy
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- financial inclusion, solar
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