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Report: The Fight for Light: Improving Energy Access through Digital Payments
Digital payments are at the core of the most successful new models for reaching last-mile customers, enabling businesses and governments to link under-served households with essential services.
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- Energy, Financial Inclusion
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First-of-its-kind report highlights enormous potential for developing mutual and cooperative insurance for the poor in India
With about 600,000 cooperatives in the country with a collective membership of over 250 million people, the potential for developing mutual and cooperative insurance for the poor in India is enormous.
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- Financial Inclusion
- Region
- South Asia
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Global health price tag could be $371 billion a year by 2030, WHO says
In a best case scenario of increasing investment to meet the goals, some 97 million premature deaths could be prevented between now and 2030, and up to 8.4 years of life expectancy could be added in some countries, the WHO said in report.
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- Health Care
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- global development, Global Goals, global health, SDGs, UNDP, WHO
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New study examines ecological underpinnings of world’s rural poverty
"The livelihoods of the rural poor are literally consumed by other organisms in complex ecological systems," explained Matthew Bonds, a visiting assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and co-author of the study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. "The environment's influence on poor rural economies makes them fundamentally different from the economies of more developed countries."
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- Environment, Financial Inclusion
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Kenya: Concern grows over mobile money user information
According to Business Daily, Safaricom is already planning to introduce a platform that will host digital identification for customers.
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- Financial Inclusion
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Huawei Agrees to Deal to Help African Expats Send Money Home
The deal will let Huawei and WorldRemit tap into growing demand for money transfers from Africans living abroad using mobile-payments services, which are popular in places where banks are scarce or unreliable.
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- Financial Inclusion, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Africa, migrants, mobile money, remittances
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Micro credit: Good or bad for Uganda’s poor population?
The experts says the micro-credits are also geared mainly towards consumption and emergences rather than investments.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This phone solves one of tech’s biggest frustrations by removing the need for a battery
In an attempt to deliver a long-term solution, researchers at the University of Washington are exploring what happens if we remove batteries from smartphones altogether.
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- Technology
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- mobile phones, technology
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