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Malaria in Mozambique: trialling payment by results
A pioneering new coalition promises to provide sustainable, cost-effective funding for disease control through development impact bonds. Will it work?
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- Health Care
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Fake medicines: It can happen to anyone
As nurses, we deliver up to 80 percent of all health care services worldwide so it is crucial we are aware of the potential risks to patient safety, particularly those difficult to detect. Fake medicines are thus a real concern for us because of their ability to compromise the efforts we put into delivering the best possible care to our patients and the populations we protect from diseases like malaria.
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How Mobile Tech is Changing Africa’s Landscape to Create Opportunities for Women
For years analysts have said that “Africa is Rising,” but now it’s really happening. With an expanding population and steady economic growth, social enterprise in Africa is today seeing real returns on investment. This “double-bottom line” success — financial plus humanitarian gains — is drawing new attention to Africa to not only advance, but also yield change.
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- Technology
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- impact investing
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Converting Small Change Into Savings
Mobile phones have been a blessing for the unbanked. Services like M-Pesa, which started in Kenya, have allowed millions of people to transfer and save money securely for the first time, and inspired dozens of copy-cat businesses around the world.
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- Technology
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- savings
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African Development Bank’s SME Program: Enhancing Inclusive Growth and Job Creation in Africa
The Board of Governors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) through its private sector window has approved a US $9 million line of credit (LOC) equivalent in Mozambique metica (MZN) to Moza Banco.
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India’s mobile operators dial migrants to power money transfers
Money transfer through mobile phones is slowly becoming popular with the country's top two operators — Bharti Airtel and Vodafone — together having notched up more than 2 million subscribers. Business is slowly gaining traction, say industry watchers, with the subscriber base growing at close to 15% growth month-on-month. Idea Cellular has made a start and Reliance Communications has just won a licence to offer money transfer services.
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- Technology
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In Zimbabwe, Econet and Western Union to integrate money transfer systems
ECONET Wireless has entered into a commercial arrangement with global money transfer agency Western Union that will enable people to send money from abroad to account holders of its mobile money transfer platform EcoCash. This means EcoCash account holders will not need to physically visit Western Union branches to receive money sent through the money transfer agency.
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OPINION: Indian government and RBI should end their indecisiveness on financial inclusion
Perhaps on no issue have the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) been in concordance over the past several years - except for financial inclusion.
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