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Credit Score, by Multiple Choice
No credit? No problem — just take a test. That’s the message being delivered to more than 70,000 small-business owners in developing countries where credit ratings are rare and many potential entrepreneurs keep their money in cash rather than bank accounts.
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Nigeria promoting financial inclusion through prize-linked promotions
Showy and appealing, prize-linked promotions (PLPs) are the modern version of ‘Million Adventure’, a savings programme launched in the UK in 1694. Anne Murphy in “Lotteries in the 1690s: Investment or Gamble?” described it as “an unprecedented large-scale financial saving tool”. Thomas Neale, who was in charge of the promo commenting on its success said: ‘many Thousands who only have small sums, and cannot now bring them into the Publick, [may now] engage themselves in this Fund’.
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Reserve Bank of India panel suggests new set of banks for financial inclusion
RBI panel headed by Nachiket Mor also seeks universal electronic bank account for all adult Indian citizens by January 2016.
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Crowdfunding For Good Now A Growing Global Movement
Imagine raising $17 million in one day. Using the Razoo platform, GiveMN, a statewide crowdfunding campaign for Minnesota nonprofits, did just that on November 14, 2013, when over 52,000 individual donors combined to set a record for the most money raised in a single day through crowdfunding (as far I can tell).
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Spreading hope one box at a time
Over 20 artists share their works to aid victims of typhoon ‘Yolanda’
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Press Release: Department of State to Host Google+ Hangout on How Young People Are Transforming the Health World
Secretary Kerry’s Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues Zeenat Rahman and CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps Barbara Bush will participate in a Google+ Hangout on “How Young People Are Transforming the Health World” at 9:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, January 8.
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Long-term Health Problems After Natural Disasters Strike
Health obstacles plague communities long after a natural disaster.
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Kalam inaugurates tele-radiology unit at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai
Patients who are rushed to hospital in times of emergency may not always be lucky enough to have the individual attention of a specialist. But with the 'tele-radiology project', an initiative of Apollo Hospitals, it may be possible.
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