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Mobile Clinics Bring Health Care to South Africa Countryside
South Africa has a serious lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas. In many cases, people must walk for kilometers to reach the closest clinic. But some new solar-powered mobile clinics are changing that.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- solar
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8 Incredibly Effective Ways to Save Children from Preventable Deaths
How many children's lives can be saved with $1 million? That's the question posed to the eight finalists in the inaugural Caplow Children’s Prize, the biggest humanitarian prize for saving the lives of children.
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7M more healthcare workers needed to meet world demand
In order to meet demand for essential health services, the world needs at least 7.2 million more nurses, midwives and doctors, according to a new report by the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Health Organization, presented at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Pneumonia responsible for 20% of child deaths
Global health bodies highlight essential interventions that will help reduce the incidence of pneumonia as the disease remains the single biggest killer of children under five globally. Pneumonia claims the lives of more than 1 million girls and boys every year despite pneumonia deaths being preventable.
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Telecoms firms pin hopes on mobile banking
Cellular operators want to open up their networks for more banking transactions as they have pinned their hopes on mobile money to grow revenues in the future. According to Fredrik Jejdling, Ericsson’s sub-Saharan African regional head, the most downloaded mobile apps in Africa now were banking apps. Social networks were the second most downloaded.
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What General Electric’s Big Bet On Crowdfunding Looks Like
If you're closely watching the developing situation around crowdfunding, one of the themes you start to see is that expertise matters - and therefore the whole crusade to provide a platform for funding but little else may need to be reevaluated. Because investors that only provide capital and not industry knowledge and contacts are shortchanging the entrepreneur.
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Financial Inclusion By 2020: Our Generation’s Equivalent of Putting a Man on the Moon
Organizations like the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion and the World Bank have recently set a goal by 2020 of achieving full financial inclusion for the 2.5 billion people – about half the planet – who don’t participate in the financial mainstream. Bringing one in two people across the globe into the financial fold is a formidable challenge. Can it be done?
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A data-driven perspective on Islamic finance
In an effort to add some empirical rigor to ongoing debates surrounding Islamic finance, a new working paper and Findex Note explore differences in the usage of formal financial services between Muslims and non-Muslims, and the usage of and preference for Sharia-compliant banking products.
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- Education
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- North Africa & Near East