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Agent banking in Nigeria: Long wait to ‘hit the ground running’
In August 2013, approval requirements for financial institutions wishing to key into Nigeria's agent banking business were released. Where are we now?
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The Grocers’ Great Trek
A sluggish home market is pushing South Africa’s big retail chains northward.
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Malaria Will Be The First Disease Beaten By Mobile
"Malaria will be the first disease beaten by mobile.” That’s what Martin Edlund, the CEO of Malaria No More, told the buzzing crowd during his Social Good Summit talk earlier today. Edlund and his organization view the mobile phone as a game-changer in the fight against malaria, a disease that killed 660,000 people last year – primarily women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edlund explained that malaria “thrives on bad information” and lack of data. And mobile phones are helping connect the dots between all the other malaria-fighting tools.
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Uganda streamlines healthcare with mobile technology
Uganda has received the African Development Bank's prestigious eHealth award for its M-Trac health management system, which has successfully changed the face of health service delivery in the country. At Uganda’s many remote health centres, putting pen to paper was the only way to alert health officials to problems such as drug shortages or outbreaks of malaria.
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Coalition of Public, Private and Civil Society Leaders Unveils Roadmap to Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion 2020 today announced the launch of the Roadmap to Financial Inclusion, a series of recommendations designed to expand access to quality financial services globally.
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It’s Time to Move Underserved U.S. Latinos Into the Financial Mainstream
Half of the 52 million Latinos living in the U.S. are financially underserved -- this is an economically unsustainable situation, and it's time to make a change.
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MasterCard Promotes Financial Inclusion With Electronic Payments
While payment cards are often promoted as premium status-driven consumer products in the United States and Europe, in developing countries debit cards are proving valuable for delivering child benefits, pension payments and government salaries.
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Uganda: Executive Style – Managing Patients’ Records for Better Health
Claude VendetteOne Solutions, an ICT support company, is pioneering an innovative ICT-based record-keeping system to improve on operations at health facilities - which will ultimately contribute to the streamlining of processes in the health care delivery system in Uganda. The CEO, Claude Vendette, spoke to The Independent about its benefits.
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