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How Zidisha Sidestepped Banks and Took Microfinancing Peer-to-Peer
Microfinancing platform Zidisha is changing the way microlending works. By cutting out the middle man, they have drastically reduced interest rates for borrowers in the developing world.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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Frustration Rises Over Crowdfunding Rules
Critics Say Two-Year-Old JOBS Act, Intended to Help Entrepreneurs Attract Investments, Requires Major Revisions
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Online Solar Marketplace Raises $1M In Equity Crowdfunding
Levine, a serial entrepreneur, raised $2 million in an angel round in 2011 and $14 million in a second round the next year.
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- Energy
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- crowdfunding, solar
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Bottom of the Pyramid Business Strategy in Nigeria
The BOP concept champions new thinking and new ways of doing business in the world’s poor markets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Inside the Technology That Can Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Doctor
The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Investing in Nature: New Sources of Capital
Two hundred and fifty billion dollars: that's the gap between the estimated need to support global conservation efforts and what's currently devoted to these activities annually, according to a recent study.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing, scale
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Janssen and Stop TB Partnership to expand access to tuberculosis medicines
Janssen has entered into a new agreement with the Stop TB Partnership that will facilitate access to tuberculosis therapies in a number of poorer countries.
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- Health Care
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Drug-Resistant Bugs a Global Threat, WHO Says
Germs that defy antibiotics are now a major global health threat, causing near-untreatable cases of diarrhea, sepsis, pneumonia and gonorrhea, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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- Health Care
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