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Press Release: MIX’s 2020 Inclusive Fintech 50 Application Period Announced
The application period for the 2020 Inclusive Fintech 50 opens on June 15. The initiative elevates promising early-stage fintechs driving financial inclusion and resilience around the globe through a competitive process led by an independent panel of judges from venture capital, technology, and financial services.
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Viewpoint: 4 Ways Digitisation Can Unlock Africa’s Recovery
The full human cost of COVID-19 in Africa is not yet known, but it is likely to be significant. Importantly, for many Africans, the longer-term socio-economic consequences of the pandemic is likely to be just as material as the health impact of the virus itself.
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- Coronavirus, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s Mobile Operators Progress With 5G Trials
Just released, this edition of Paul Budde Communication’s focus report on Kenya outlines the major developments and key aspects in the telecoms markets.
Read the full report: https://www.budde.com.au/Research/Kenya-Telecoms-Mobile-and-Broadband-Statistics-and-Analyses- Categories
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: How Socially-Led Innovation Can Bring Positive Change in Unchartered Times
There's an old and somewhat overused saying attributed to Winston Churchill that is nevertheless appropriate in these uncertain times: never let a good crisis go to waste. A global pandemic certainly qualifies as a crisis, but what good can we generate from this exceptional challenge?
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- Coronavirus
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- innovation
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Street Snacks to Sanitiser: The Afghan Women Fighting Coronavirus in Kabul
When lockdown closed their businesses, food sellers adapted their carts into mini disinfection units to tackle the outbreak
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How Can We Protect the World’s Poor From Coronavirus and Its Economic Effects?
G20 leaders urgently need to reconvene to agree on an enhanced and more strongly coordinated global response to the COVID-19 crisis. Although lockdowns are being eased in many places, the daily number of new COVID-19 cases worldwide recently reached its highest level yet, while the pandemic’s devastating economic toll continues to mount as new epicenters arise in the emerging and developing world.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Viewpoint: The Day After COVID-19 and Saving Emerging Markets
The world is facing a simultaneous health and economic crisis that has spared no one. There won’t be winners in this pandemic and the related halt in economic activity, but some countries will suffer more than others. Emerging markets will lose more than the rest.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Preventing an Emerging-Market Meltdown
Emerging markets today account for more than two-fifths of global GDP measured at market exchange rates, and nearly three-fifths after adjusting for differences in purchasing power. If these economies crash, then rich-country citizens will also be the victims of an economic catastrophe long foretold and clearly avoidable.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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