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Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has offered a grant of one million US Dollars to the Biofilcom, inventors and producers of biofil toilets to scale up to make the toilets available at cheaper cost.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Equity Crowdfunding Rules in the U.S.: 15 Things Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know Now
Equity crowdfunding promises to open up a new financing source for thousands of capital starved businesses around the country. Many entrepreneurs are wondering what this means for them and don’t have time to digest the complex 585 page rule proposal.
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- Uncategorized
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- crowdfunding, governance
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LeapFrog Investments backs Petra Trust
LeapFrog Investments has taken a stake in Petra Trust. The business is a pension trustee company based in Ghana.
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Will taxes kill mobile money in Africa?
One sector continues to show growth in Africa and demonstrate the genuine potential the continent has to leapfrog global counterparts: mobile money services. However, recent media reports have highlighted one controversial aspect of the mobile money transfer market that continues to generate news headlines: taxation on mobile money services offered by network operators.
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- Uncategorized
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- governance, mobile finance
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Public health leaders promote new framework for development
Countries should consider expanding investments through organizations that are already engaged in global dialogue and investment approaches.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance
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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue
The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Portable telemedicine device for medics
A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics developed with the support of ESA offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms.
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WHO guidance ‘risks killing children’
Rapid fluid resuscitation of children in shock can cause death, a major trial showed in 2011, but the World Health Organisation has yet to update its advice to doctors, say scientists, warning thousands could be harmed
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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