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India to allow crowdfunding
India has become the first Asian country, outside Australasia and Japan, to propose a regulatory framework for crowdfunding, the retail-targeted funding platform for start-up companies and individual projects.
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Forget Bitcoin: There’s A Better Model For Mobile Money
It's called M-Pesa, and it's also spreading around the world.
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OPINION: Equity crowdfunding in U.S. is a disaster waiting to happen
Equity crowdfunding was supposed to be an economic boon. Instead it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
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Citizen Sensors Make India’s Complicated Water System A Little Easier To Navigate
With the help of simple mobile phone technology, a nonprofit called NextDrop is improving access to water for poor families.
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Foreign Aid Isn’t Charity. It’s an Investment
One of the few bright spots of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill of late has been in global development. The House recently passed a bill to support President Clinton’s Power Africa initiative, which is designed to boost access to electricity across six countries in the region. Both houses also managed to reauthorize PEPFAR—the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief— which provides antiretrovirals toalmost 7 million people worldwide.
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Cleantech in the developing world: from solar power to refrigeration
For a growing number of companies, cleantech promises innovations and opportunities at the base of the pyramid
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Are World Cup viewers receiving a message that could make them sick?
The World Cup has a profound social impact, including on global health, according to Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes
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High cost of vaccines complicates crisis response in South Sudan
Aid group Médecins Sans Frontières says thousands of children have missed critical vaccines because pharmaceutical companies won’t budge on price
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