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Kenya Mobile Money Transactions Jump 21.8% Despite Tax Increase
A recent report by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has revealed mobile payments in the East African country jumped 21.8 percent year-on-year to Sh1.2 trillion ($14.2 billion) at the end of August from Sh987.2 billion ($11.6 billion), despite a government hike in transaction charges.
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Can you make money and feel good about it?
Want to make money while helping the people around you? Impact investing may have the answer.
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Social Stock Exchange – the rise of international competitors
The UK is no longer the only country with a social stock exchange, as Canada follows suit with its own version
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11 verdicts on microfinance
Can smarter regulation restore faith in microfinance or does it need to be completely overhauled? Our live chat panelists offer their thoughts on development's controversial sector.
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Impact Investing, Soros-Style
The Soros Economic Development Fund is quasi-philanthropic and invests in high-risk projects in parts of the world most people couldn’t find on a map. But the Fund is self-sufficient and boasts a “blended” portfolio return of 8 percent a year. How do they do it?
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Alibaba issues China’s first microloan securitization
Orient Securities and Alibaba have issued the nation’s first securitized product backed by microloans.
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Malnutrition is biggest global health problem, Gates Foundation exec tells CU students
Malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths each year of 6.6 million children under 5 years of age, a global health expert told Creighton University premed students Tuesday.
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Building innovative PPPs to fight poverty-related diseases
Innovative forms of across-sectors partnerships add value and accelerate innovation in the fight against poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, and at the same time contribute to the EU’s research and development policy goals.
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