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Vodafone India completes pan-India M-Pesa rollout in Q4-FY14
Vodafone India which operates the mobile payment service M-Pesa through its wholly owned subsidiary Mobile Commerce Solutions Ltd (MCSL), has completed the pan-India rollout of the service in March 2014, about one year since its India launch and about 16 months after the initial announcement.
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Somaliland has embraced mobile money – but at what price?
Mobile money platform Zaad is booming in Somaliland, but there is concern its reliance on the dollar is damaging the economy
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Reform to boost not-for-profits
Amendments to the 2005 Enterprise Law aim to enable social enterprises to operate more efficiently, Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management, Nguyen Dinh Cung, told the Viet Nam Investment Review.
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Dupont, Cargill ‘most supportive’ Feed the Future partners
On Monday, the U.S. Agency for International Development will launch a progress report ahead of a three-day global forum on Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s initiative to advance food security in 19 countries.
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ICT Authority names Microsoft, ZiDi as 2014 Innovation Award winner in health care
The application is developed by MicroClinic Technologies with technical support from Microsoft under the 4Afrika initiative. ZiDi trials are being run in 6 health centres and public dispensaries in Kiambu and Kisumu counties and the Gatundu Sub District Hospital, that serves in excess of 3,000 patients monthly. ZiDi™ automates stocktaking, personnel administration, financial management and service delivery in these health centres.
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Chamber speaker champions Yunus investing model to ease social problems
Muhammad Yunus has devoted himself to aiding the impoverished. The Bangladeshi economist, known as the father of microcredit and microfinance, continues to search for remedies to the economic woes of Third World nations. The microfinance and microcredit concepts that he pioneered in the 1970s have since moved 20 million families in his native country out of poverty and earned him a Nobel Prize in 2006.
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Mobile money use on the rise in West Africa
Various strategies are being used to encourage use of mobile money services
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Smart, Citi tie-up for e-payments
MANILA, Philippines—The mobile money unit Smart Communications is partnering with Citibank Philippines, allowing clients to settle bills using mobile platforms, a statement showed.
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