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Rwanda: Survival Instinct Takes Over As Banks Partner With Telecoms
As the fight for customers between banks and telecoms continues to grow by the day, banks have realised that the only way to ease the pressure and also stay competitive is to work with telecoms.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Incofin floats ProPulse Fund to back microfinance cos, targets institutions
Incofin has backed microfinance firms such as Annapurna, Fusion and Grameen Koota in India.
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- South Asia
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#BBCtrending: Can social media help prevent the spread of Ebola?
West Africa is in the grip of the world's deadliest outbreak of Ebola, and many in the region are using social media to educate each other on the symptoms and prevention methods.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘No Market’: Scientists Struggle to Make Ebola Vaccines, Treatments
At least four vaccines are being developed to protect people against Ebola, including one that protects monkeys completely against the deadly virus. Several groups are also working on treatments, but one of the most promising is stuck in safety testing.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Computing a Cure for HIV
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization and remains a major health issue worldwide.
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- Health Care
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Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley to partner on Crowdfunding Research
Over a year ago, Crowdnetic and UC Berkeley began collaborating on the launch of UC Berkeley’s Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance, headed by Dr. Richard Swart, who serves as its Director of Research at the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Microcredits boost rural financing in China
Opinions on Development of Financial Services to Farmer, Rural Areas, and Agricultural Production by the General Office of the State Council has proposed "accelerated promotion of microcredits in rural areas".
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Reserve Bank of India survey finds 47 percent of banking agents ‘untraceable’
The success of the government’s thrust on financial inclusion, which largely hinges on the role played by business correspondents (BCs), is faced with a harsh reality check.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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