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Viewpoint: Fintech in Africa: Reshaping the Financial Sector
Across many countries in Africa, fintech is improving financial inclusion and stimulating innovation and productivity in major sectors, such as the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector and the agriculture sector, the backbone of the region's economy.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Private Sector Can Help Light the Way for Forcibly Displaced People. Here’s How
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 97% of FDP have limited or no access to electricity in camps. As a result of constrained resources and short-term funding cycles, energy access is rarely considered in the country strategies, projects and budgets of the UN.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Transforming a Supply Chain Into a Social Enterprise
Creating sustainability initiatives that can scale requires innovative balancing of social impact and profit seeking.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Covid-19: Remittance Flows To Shrink 14% by 2021
International migration to fall in 2020 for the first time in recent decades
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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Press Release: Villgro Africa Pioneering Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Villgro Africa, an impact investor that inspires, nurtures, and scales innovation by offering customized technical assistance and investments to early stage social entrepreneurs in Africa today celebrated its 5th anniversary as they go beyond their boundaries to serve the rest of Africa.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale, SDGs
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Federal Government To Invest in the Deployment of Mini-Grid Systems To Power 5 Million Homes in 2021
The Minister said the government will invest in Mini-grid systems that will provide power for 5 million homes in 2021.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Keeping Girls in School Is Worth Billions To Developing Nations
New analysis finds that investing in girls' education will forge fairer and wealthier societies.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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Bitcoin Too Volatile To Aid Financial Inclusion, Says Mastercard CEO
The inherent volatility of Bitcoin makes it ill-fitted for the needs of unbanked people, argued Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga.
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- Finance, Technology
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