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Stop charging high interest rates, Bank of Ghana tells MFIs
Microfinance companies have been urged not to charge high, unsustainable interest rates by the Head of Other Financial Institutions Supervision Department of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Mr Raymond Amanfu.
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Bharti Airtel & VeriFone to drive Africa’s mobile money evolution
Bharti Airtel and VeriFone Mobile Money have reached an agreement to offer VeriFone Mobile Money’s merchant enablement applications for mobile Tap n Pay across Airtel’s 17 operating countries in Africa.
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Financial inclusion in India may remain an unsolved puzzle for now
Days after the PM announced a financial inclusion package, a look at how banks and insurance firms are going about it & what lies ahead.
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PRESS RELEASE: Toniic Announces Support from Omidyar Network
San Francisco, USA and Mumbai, India (August 18, 2014) – Toniic – a global network of over 120 action-oriented impact investors – is pleased to announce the financial support of philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network.
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Does emergency nutrition cripple local economies?
Providing emergency nutrition in a way that undermines the capacity of local economies to respond to food insecurity and malnutrition themselves seems a clear violation of the 'do-no-harm' principle.
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Liberian Natives Work To Fight Ebola Outbreak From Boston
In Boston, some natives of Liberia are working to improve sanitation conditions and train health workers on the ground in their homeland, as the country and two of its neighbors battle a deadly Ebola outbreak.
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OPINION: A Critical New Role for the World Bank
The bank should rise to the challenges posed by remittances — a critical tool in the fight against world poverty.
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New Bank of Ghana rules excite mobile money vendors
Companies in the mobile money business are in an anticipatory mood for the implementation of a new Bank of Ghana regulation on mobile payment systems, which they contend will help to boost payment transactions using the mobile phone.
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