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Report: How Robots Hurt Jobs in Emerging Economies
According to one World Bank estimate, two-thirds of jobs in developing countries could be lost to automation.
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- Technology
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What Facebucks Can Do for the Global Poor
Global, open, instant, and low cost: It sounds undeniably great. The status quo, while global, is hardly open, instant, or low cost. Still, Libra faces major challenges in becoming a preeminent financial tool of the global poor.
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Viewpoint: Blockchain Blossoms in Haiti
The technological revolutions that have shaped the modern world have thus far all taken root in rich countries. Today, a new disruptive technology is breaking that mold – blockchain. Nowhere is this plainer than Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and home to a blossoming range of projects using blockchain technologies to solve problems in ordinary people’s lives.
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- Latin America
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Google and Facebook Are Circling Africa With Huge Undersea Cables to Get Millions Online
The big picture for these companies is that the deployment of high-capacity fiber-optic cables will ultimately improve connectivity and likely make internet costs much cheaper, allowing more Africans to get—and stay—connected. For Google and Facebook, the tens of millions of people who will come online as a result also represent a larger target market for their ever-growing cache of products and advertising services.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: No, Facebook’s Libra Will Not Really Help The Unbanked
Ultimately, the aim of Libra is to be a truly mainstream cryptocurrency: a decentralized global form of payment that is as stable as the dollar, can be used to buy almost anything, and can support an entire range of financial products—from banking to loans to credit.
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Can Blockchain Tech Revolutionize The Global Aid Industry?
Powered by the ethereum blockchain, Disberse is building a distributed financial network that helps to improve transparency and efficiency in the aid sector
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Press Release: VisionFund International Celebrates 15 Years
Operating through a network of microfinance institutions in 28 countries, VisionFund works alongside World Vision to empower families living in impoverished communities with limited access to formal financial services to overcome poverty.
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India’s Open ‘Neo-Bank’ Raises $30 Million to Help Businesses Automate Their Finances
Open operates as a neo-bank that offers nearly all the features of the bank with additional tools to serve the needs of a business.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- startups
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