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Making Money Pay: Direct Cash Transfers in Kenya
According to proponents, direct cash transfers not only cut out admin costs and losses to corruption. They are also more empowering and effective.
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CHINA SEES A SHARP INCREASE IN MOBILE PAYMENTS
NEW REPORT HIGHLIGHTS THE GROWTH OF MOBILE TRANSACTIONS IN CHINA
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PRESS RELEASE: JPMorgan Chase & Co. Commits $30 Million to Establish Financial Solutions LabSM and Improve Financial Capability
Led by the Center for Financial Services Innovation, the Lab intends to catalyze, test and scale promising innovations that help people increase savings, improve credit and build assets
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OPIC Committed $2.7 billion to High-Impact Sectors in 2013
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is proud to release for the first time a detailed picture of its Fiscal Year 2013 commitments in the impact investing space.
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U.N. Vows to Eliminate Open Defecation by 2025
At the height of his election campaign last October, Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist leader, briefly set aside his spiritual aspirations when he told a surprised audience that economic development should take precedence over religion.
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Global health: Deadly dinners
Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing.
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OPINION: We’re All Liars: Creative Storytelling Is the Nonprofit Sector’s Drug of Choice
On May 21, 2014, Newsweek funneled years of speculation and doubt into a single piece that, once and for all, brought the legendary Somaly Mam into the spotlight for a type of fraud that has become the Achilles heal of the nonprofit world.
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Kenya’s Virtual Operators Add Twist To Mobile Money Revolution
A move by the Kenya communication regulator to license three mobile virtual network operators (MNVO) – that don’t own their own communication infrastructure – is expected to expected to increase competition in the mobile money segment of the market that has been for the last couple of year dominated by a single player.
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