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GT Moves to Revolutionarise Rural Communication, by Ama Achiaa Amankwah
A model communication centre developed for rural and peri-urban communities, under an Information Communication Technology, (ICT) project dubbed eCARE, has been envisaged to revolutionarise communication in the rural areas. eCARE is an acronym for e-commerce and renewable energy. The project seeks to increase access to ICT powered by renewable energy in rural and peri-urban areas of Ghana. eCARE has been a community phone project by Ghana Telecom since February 2005. ...
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- Public Agenda (Accra)
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M-Banking Finds Success in Africa, by Steve Wallage
In countries and communities where banks and credit card companies have far less sway than in the Western world, mobile banking suddenly seems much more attractive. M-banking always seems like such an obvious evolution of the mobile phone. Talk of the electronic wallet and cashless society has been with us for years now, and what better tool to enable it than the ubiquitous mobile? If only the reality was as easy. There are at least four major stakeholders in m-banking: th...
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- TheFeature
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Article 13’s report, ?Climate Change and Poverty: A Business Opportunity??
Article 13, the leading specialists on governance, business responsibility and sustainable development, have published the report, ?Climate Change and Poverty: A Business Opportunity?? as a contribution to the ongoing debate about how business can contribute ? beyond pure philanthropy ? to addressing these two problems. The report contains a wealth of original material: a survey of FTSE-500 chief executives on their current approaches and expectations of future developments; interviews ...
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Global Poverty Plans Demand Business Engagement For Success
The Business-led development organisation, the IBLF, has today warned that UN targets set to reduce global poverty, such as the UN Millennium Development Goals, will be jeopardised unless business becomes more engaged in the fight against poverty. The claim comes as the IBLF prepares to open a senior level symposium entitled Business and Development - Business models for meeting development challenges, taking place this Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th May. The IBLF has partnered with the UN...
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Vietnam to receive US$2.5M from BP Development Fund
Vietnam will be a recipient of BP’s new US$500 million global development plan, a company official told Vietnam News last week. Nguyen Duc Hung, the company’s communication and public affairs manager, said starting this year BP will donate $2.5 million to its Vietnam development projects in a five year circle, in which an average $500,000 will be allocated each year. The fund stems from BP Group’s recent change in its community investment strategy. We have identi...
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- Asia Pulse
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Microlending at Crossroads After 20 Years, by John Pain
Microlenders are becoming more popular, but they are at a crossroads. The money that they lend comes from government grants and foundations, whose generosity ebbs and flows with the health of the economy. And after two decades, they still don’t have enough customers to be self-sufficient. The Aspen Institute, a Washington-based research group, estimates that 10 million microbusinesses have trouble getting bank financing, but only 150,000 to 170,000 are currently working with lenders an...
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- Associated Press
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Prominent Oakland Think Tank Wins John Templeton Foundation Award For ’’What Works in Enterprise-Bas
The Independent Institute is launching the new Center on Global Prosperity to examine potential enterprise-based solutions to end abject poverty in developing countries in Latin America and around the world. The Center is the result of a $500,000 award from the John Templeton Foundation’s What Works in Enterprise-Based Solutions to Poverty competition. The Independent Institute, a non-partisan,scholarly public policy organization based in Oakland, California, was selected from a...
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- Independent Institute
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Syria: Micro credit programme expanding
Mohamad Abul Jadayel, a father of two in the northwestern Hama governorate in Syria, used to be unemployed for long periods of time. Sometimes he didn’t even have enough money to feed his family. But now his life has changed. I thought of an animal husbandry project to improve my livelihood but I did not have money to implement my project. I obtained a US $300 loan from the Aga Khan Development Network [AKDN] to buy two goats. After one year, I got another $400 loan and bought ano...
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- IRIN
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