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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Payment banks could promote financial inclusion in India
Payment banks will be a bank in every respect except that it can’t lend, thus removing the risk of leverage.
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‘Micro-insurance Impacts Significantly on Social Indices’
The Micro-insurance Network, the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) micro-insurance innovation facility, has said that micro-insurance has impacted positively on the standard of living of low income earners across the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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More mobile money choices for Zimbabweans
Competition is heating up in Zimbabwe’s mobile money space as telecom firms look to outwit each other in order to cash in.
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Did T-Mobile just pull an Android on U.S. banks?
Operators have been trying for ages to launch mobile banking schemes hoping to create new revenue opportunities for themselves. T-Mobile’s latest attempt, dubbed Mobile Money, offers a refreshing new perspective on the space. Drawing on the playbook of innovators like Google and Amazon, T-Mobile uses two strategies that are indeed quite un-carrier-like.
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- Technology
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Quickteller supports cardless withdrawals for Nigerian mobile money users
Mobile money users in Nigeria can now make cash withdrawals from ATMs without a bank account or card, according to Interswitch Transnational, due to the ability of its Quickteller to power cardless ATM withdrawals.
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OPINION: Will Equity Crowdfunding Laws Be the Death of Kickstarter?
There have recently been some angry grumblings from the blogosphere about the government wanting to stick its fingers in the crowdfunding pie. The concern across the internet seems to be that new regulations will destroy the rapidly-growing crowdfunding industry that brought us the Pebble Watch and the Veronica Mars movie.
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Online microfinance platform RangDe invites equity investments for social benefit
A not-for-profit company, infused with the commitment and passion of 'jholawala' NGOs and adorned by the rigour and trappings of a true-blue business entity, is inviting equity investments from donors-investors with the promise of returning their principal anytime they want after two years.
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- Impact Assessment
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