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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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- Education
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- South Asia
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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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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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- Health Care
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GNRC announces launch of air ambulance service in North-East India
GNRC (formerly known as Guwahati Neurological Research Centre) today unveiled plans to initiate air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote areas of North-east India.
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- Health Care
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HP Will Expand Its Cloud-enabled Rural Health Care Centres In India
HP's two day long summit is on in Mumbai, India. Today world's major technology and data solutions company, HP, revealed a lesser known fact.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Tanzania: Missing Link Between Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction
THE much celebrated economic growth in Tanzania and other African countries that are said to make good progress can only have a meaning if there will be myriad poverty alleviation indicators.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social entrepreneur incubator launched in Taiwan
A social entrepreneur incubation platform based on the U.K.’s UnLtd model was launched July 1 in Taiwan, according to program operator Social Enterprise Insights.
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