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4.4 billion people around the world still don’t have Internet. Here’s where they live
The world wide web still isn't all that worldwide. An exhaustive new study by McKinsey & Company (really, it's 120 pages long) about the barriers to Internet adoption around the world illuminates a rather surprising reality: 4.4 billion people scattered across the globe, including 3.2 billion living in only 20 countries, still aren't connected to the Internet.
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- Education, Technology
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- research
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OPINION: Is mobile money the key to Africa’s cashless society?
As the story of the mobile phone and its contribution in bridging the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa unfolds, the device’s revolutionary role in facilitating transactions and wealth distribution in the region is shaping up in an unprecedented way.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Socially Responsible Investing Around the Globe Isn’t Easy
Socially responsible investors—who seek to marry long-term competitive financial results with social objectives—have to tangle with a number of risks in emerging markets.
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- Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Bank of Ghana deadline unsettles microfinance companies
Some microfinance companies are doubtful of meeting the Bank of Ghana’s set deadline of June 2016 to shore-up their paid capital as per the revised regulations.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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OPINION: How Pay-for-Success Funding Might Help Low-Income Students
Policy makers, college administrators, and parents are all searching for ways to help needy students graduate. But one option is missing from the debate: pay-for-success financing.
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- Education
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Citi looks to tech and non-profits to drive financial inclusion; Gates talks bitcoin and biometrics
Citi is working with non-profit organisation Catalyst Miami on a tech-based financial inclusion programme that it believes could be replicated across the country.
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Gates Links Technology, Banking Services for Poor
Bill Gates is banking on digital technology to bring financial services to the world’s poor.
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Mobile wallet won’t take off in India unless direct withdrawal allowed: Experts
The first wave of telco-backed payments banks is slated to charge up India's mobile banking turf but explosive growth in mobile money transactions, mirroring the Africa experience, won't happen unless RBI allows direct cash withdrawals under mobile wallet services, leveraging the reach of telecom retail networks, mobile operators and sector analysts told ET.
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