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USAID administrator announces financial inclusion commitments in India
U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah announced USAID support for three priority areas of partnership as identified in the recent summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Barack Obama in Washington.
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Can M-Pesa Succeed in India?
This case study looks at how M-Pesa, a service that originated in Kenya, was tweaked for India and whether it can succeed.
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PRESS RELEASE: GSMA Introduces Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers
The GSMA today launched a Code of Conduct for Mobile Money Providers, outlining a series of common business principles to enable the development of safe and responsible digital financial services.
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India’s financial inclusion scheme progressing ahead of schedule
At the current pace, it's a matter of days before bank employees help the government scale the target of opening 7.5 crore bank accounts under the financial inclusion scheme launched on August 29.
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PRESS RELEASE: First-of-Its-Kind Survey Finds $23 Billion Global Market for Conservation Investing
The first-ever survey of conservation impact investing reveals a fast-growing market totaling approximately $23 billion in the five-year period from 2009-2013.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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A chocolate factory with a higher purpose
When Shawn Askinosie left a successful law career and founded his bean-to-bar chocolate company in 2006, he set out to make a prize-winning product while helping developing-world farmers and their communities. Today he practices direct trade, meeting face-to-face with farmers to buy their cacao beans at above fair trade prices. And he returns each year to share 10 percent of his profits as well.
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Bill Gates-Backed Group Weighs Funding for Ebola Vaccine
As GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) and other drugmakers race to develop and deploy vaccines against West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, one key question remains: who will pay?
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Airtel joins GSMA’s mobile health programme
Bharti Airtel today said it has joined GSMA's mobile health partnership programme which aims to provide a range of services to women and children across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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