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SKS Microfinance poised to make a clean break from the past
If Vikram Akula, the disgraced founder of SKS Microfinance, is attempting a back-door entry into the company, then something in it is attractive again.
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- South Asia
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International money transfers via mobile to exceed $10 billion by the end of the year
Juniper Research forecasts that nearly 400 million mobile phone users worldwide will use their handsets for mobile money transfer by 2018.
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- remittances
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Piloting the 2014 Findex
As President Kim pointed out earlier this month at the plenary of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, 2.5 billion adults worldwide aren’t using the formal financial system
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Mobile Devices Alone Won’t Solve American Financial Inclusion Problem
Mobile services would alleviate friction and save time for underserved, low-income consumers. But convenience won't necessarily transform the financially excluded into the financially included.
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Time for New Revolutions in Global Health Care
The introductions of anesthesia, sterilization and academy-trained surgeons were the three revolutions of modern surgery, but this history reflects progress that has prioritized a small portion of the world's population.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Blue chip companies join forces with UN to provide better healthcare
The campaign aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers by the end of 2015.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a restaurant chain pioneered a social impact bond to fight malaria
Nando’s, the restaurant chain popular for its peri-peri chicken, recently announced a partnership creating the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond, a development impact bond to fund malaria reduction efforts in Mozambique.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mexico nears junk food tax, sets anti-obesity plan
Mexico's congress approved a new tax on junk food Thursday as the government announced a campaign to fight obesity in a country with one of the world's highest rates of overweight people.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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- nutrition, public health
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