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Obama’s Africa legacy moment?
U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to three African countries last summer might have been dubbed the “trade not aid” tour.
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African entrepreneurs turning to crowdfunding
The banks wouldn't give him a loan, so Cameroonian Georges Badjangs approached a crowdfunding platform. Although relatively unknown in Africa, this alternative source of finance is helping his firm grow.
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WHO: Ebola Spread Outpaces Control Effort
The head of the World Health Organization has told the presidents of West African nations stricken by Ebola that the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it.
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OPINION: The paradox that is Indian healthcare
The best and the worst of facilities exist cheek by jowl. This glaring contradiction needs to be addressed
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U.S. under pressure to give potentially life-saving medication the green light as experts warn of global pandemic
Health campaigners are today calling for U.S. authorities to speed up their approval of a new drug hoped to be the first cure for the deadly Ebola virus.
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Impact Investing’s Image Problem
Steve Schueth, president of First Affirmative Financial Network, offered an analogy that made the usual invest-to-make-money-first-and-then-be-philanthropic-later approach sound something like a Viking raid.
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Financial market urged to target youth savings business
A global poverty alleviation group has come up with suggestions on how financial services providers in developing countries can tap into the huge youth savings market.
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PRESS RELEASE: New Report on Integrated Health and Microfinance in India Shows the Way Forward
On July 29, 2014, Freedom from Hunger, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar released a new report titled "Integrated Health and Microfinance in India, Volume II: The Way Forward." The report was released in advance of the South Asia Conference on Policies and Practices to Improve Nutrition Security in New Delhi, India.
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