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Uganda: Mobile Money Gives Banks a Run
To Richard Mwebaze, the message was loud, clear and a welcome relief from those dreaded bank queues. The head teacher at one of his children's school said parents were now free to pay school fees by mobile money.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Philippines’ Quezon City and USAID Launch Mobile Money System
The Local Government of Quezon City, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy Manila’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has launched an innovative mobile money system.
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance, mobile finance
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Latin American Nations Increase Usage of Bank Card and Mobile Payment in Online Commerce
Research and Markets' new Latin America Online Payment Methods 2013 - Second Half 2013 report indicates that online payment continues its growth in the emerging markets of this dynamic region.
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- Latin America
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Social enterprise incubator Villgro invests in three startups
Social enterprise incubator Villgro has invested an undisclosed amount in three social enterprises—OneBreath, Ecozen Solutions and Artoo. Apart from equity, the incubator will provide mentoring, access to network and talent for these start-ups.
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Global Fund: Quash Human Rights Barriers
In honor of International Human Rights Day, the Global Fund made an appeal to break down all human rights barriers to health, a critical factor in the goal of defeating AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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- Health Care
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MSF Calls for Scale-Up of “Viral Load” Monitoring to Improve HIV Treatment in Developing Countries
Global Fund and US-gov’t PEPFAR program must use purchasing power to get better prices for viral load tests.
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Global resistance to TB drugs is ‘ticking time bomb’
Increasing resistance to tuberculosis drugs around the world is a "ticking time bomb", says the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Can microenterprises grow through finance?
For some time, microfinance has been a hot topic within the development community. Many researchers and practitioners see it as a way for people to smooth their consumption over time and thus avoid the effects of bad periods.
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- microfinance