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5 ways to deliver nutrition through cash crop standards
Nutrition security is an essential part of improving farmer livelihoods.
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion’s Frontier Investments Group Invests in Eseye
Accion, a pioneer and leader in bringing financial services to the underserved, today announced that its Frontier Investments Group has become the first institutional investor in Eseye Ltd, a global machine-to-machine (‘M2M’) technology and service provider, with a participating investment in its $9.0 million Series B financing round.
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Mobile wallet a distant dream in India
Despite a huge unbanked population and 700 million cellphone connections, the concept of mobile wallet will take some time to become popular in India as people are still unaware of its larger benefits like financial inclusion, even as the standards to make it functional are yet to be in place, experts maintain.
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- South Asia
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What Nigeria needs to drive mobile money growth
Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy by GDP, will require a national accelerator programme to drive the adoption and usage of mobile money services by the vast majority of Nigerians, said Emmanuel Okoegwale, principal consultant at Mobile Money Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Taking financial inclusion beyond bank accounts in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the grand financial inclusion plan last week, which he is going to unveil on August 15.
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International Labour Office, World Bank to Enhance Access to Insurance in Africa and Asia
The International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Bank Group (WBG) have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to provide access to improved insurance products to hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers, small businesses and individuals in Asia and Africa.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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U.S. doctor contracts Ebola in Liberia
DAKAR (Reuters) - A 33-year-old American doctor working for a relief organisation in Liberia's capital has tested positive for the tropical disease Ebola, according to a statement from Samaritan's Purse.
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- Health Care
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Pricey Hepatitis C Drug Draws Criticism
To hear scientists talk about it, it’s nothing short of a wonder drug.
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- Health Care
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