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Adarsh Credit Co-op Reaches India’s Rural Poor With Mobile Tech
Mobile phones are a key way to expand financial inclusion to rural areas across emerging markets, as M-Pesa has demonstrated in Kenya. In India, Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society reaches one million members through 800 branches and more than 100,000 financial advisors who travel through villages taking deposits or disbursing money by linking to the bank through their mobile phones.
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How We Cope With MDGs Challenges
As the global community winds down the efforts towards the Millennium Development Goals, countries’ efforts are coming under scrutiny. In this interview with OLUOKUN AYORINDE, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals, Dr. Precious Kalamba Gbeneol, gives insight into the progress so far recorded by the country and others
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Rural education firm Hippocampus raises $2.4M from ADB, Unitus, Khosla Impact
Hippocampus operates 128 learning centres in Karnataka with a student base of over 7,500.
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Corporate ‘Prizes’ Driving Innovation
As the global trend for corporate prize winning competitions to drive innovation increases, a new US report offers guidance for the public sector, Not for Profits and philanthropic foundations on cultivating the winning opportunities.
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Mobile money and digitized payments have few takers in India
Lack of awareness and difficult access are the main hurdles
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Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda working on cross border mobile money platform
East Africa will soon have a common mobile money platform that will enable users to send money from one country to another without any difficulty under exchange rates approved by central banks.
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Impact investing: What’s in it for your nonprofit?
Are you a nongovernmental organization wondering how to benefit from impact investors?
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Text and voice messages help close Bangladesh health gap
DHAKA, 1 July 2014 (IRIN) - Bangladesh is moving to boost maternal health services in poorly-served rural areas by targeting voice and text messages at expectant and pregnant mothers and their families. The aim is to educate and support mothers in places where health services are weak.
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