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BlackBerry Up on Plans for New Healthcare Platform in India
Finally, things are shaping up well for Canadian handset manufacturer BlackBerry Limited. According to a report in Economic Times, Blackberry is planning to introduce a novel service platform designed to cater to the needs of the health care sector.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Muslims demand condom ban in Malawi
Malawi Muslim traditional leaders are campaigning against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV and AIDS.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What if everything we know about poor countries’ economies is totally wrong?
As China and India continue their fairly rapid paces of economic growth, a greater and greater share of extreme poverty is going to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. But if we're going to make progress there, we need to have good numbers about how various economies are faring, how income is distributed within them, and so forth.
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Zimbabwe’s high interest rates, multiple borrowings and growing debts
Zimbabwe's microfinance institutions (MFIs) doled out $170 million worth of loans to clients in the first quarter of the year with the bulk of the funds going towards domestic consumption.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Incentives to lift mobile money uptake
Airtime can be used as an incentive to drive the uptake and usage of mobile money services in countries where its growth has been sluggish.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The key to a more productive classroom is more recess
More and more US banks are getting out of the money-transfer business, Dealbook notes (paywall). A series of money-laundering scandals, punished by eye-popping fines, has made them cautious: Bank of America, HSBC, Citigroup and JP Morgan have pulled out altogether, while BBVA is reportedly looking to sell off a business unit that handles wire transfers in Latin America.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Fraudulent Mobile Money Transactions by Staff Cost MTN Uganda Billions
Mobile telecoms operator MTN Uganda has a history of losses resulting from internal misappropriation of funds. In a number of cases, former employees — mainly trade developers, mobile money agents and cleaners of contracted cleaning agencies — have faced convictions for defrauding the company.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hewlett-Packard eyes Indonesia’s SMEs, public sector
US-based information and communication technology (ICT) company Hewlett-Packard (HP) is targeting customers from small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the public sector in Indonesia, considering these market segments to be the nation’s most robust.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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