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3 Ways That Business Can Alleviate Poverty
Business has become a dirty word. Doing business with the poor seems taboo, shocking, unthinkable. But what if business could improve the lives of the world's poorest people?
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A Merry-Go-Round That Turns The Power Of Play Into Electricity in rural Ghana
Empower Playgrounds is providing electricity-generating playground equipment to impoverished schools in rural Ghana.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian banking at a crossroads
Indian banking is clearly at a turning point. Some of the key changes we will see in the next few years could push the sector into a new orbit. It will force the existing players to be more efficient in their operations and in their allocation of capital. Given the level of interference public sector banks face, they are likely to fall even further behind their private sector competitors.
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- mobile finance
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Changing trends: Technological developments in Pakistan’s banking sector
Technological advances are quickly changing the face of the Pakistani banking industry. Alternative channels are growing quickly and represent a sizable portion of banks’ revenue streams as all banks as well as mobile network operators are jumping on the ‘branchless banking’ bandwagon.
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- mobile finance
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Meet ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who’s Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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Kenyan businesses offer global insight
A number of business models originating in the country have offered global lessons on financial inclusion, ranging from mobile money, banking to insurance.The World Bank, in a new report titled ‘Global Financial Development Report 2014: Financial Inclusion’, cites various examples of success of various business models in the country that have helped deepen financial inclusion.
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Mobile money meets credit card in Ghana
MTN and Visa have partnered to offer customers a mobile payment solution which allows MTN Mobile Money users to make face-to-face and online transactions wherever Visa is accepted.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Kenya’s mobile leaders are optimistic about 2014
MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, today launched the first report of a three-country African Growth Market Study on mobile content and commerce.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa