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Mastercard and Angaza shine for payments in emerging markets
San Francisco-based Angaza provides a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) embedded metering and monitoring technology, while Mastercard brings its digital payment solutions and infrastructure including QR technology.
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- Energy, Finance, Technology
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- South Asia
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Press release: Hello Tractor and CTA launch partnership to support smallholder farmers access mechanisation
Across sub-Saharan Africa, farmers face some of the lowest rates of mechanisation. Despite the benefits of tractor mechanisation, cost and access have been key impediments to its widespread adoption.
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- Press release
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s microfinance industry posts 43% growth in Q3
The total number of microfinance accounts witnessed an annual growth of 24.3 per cent.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Yale University to fund sustainable health startup initiative in India
"As the first signature programme of the Yale Institute for Global Health, we are very excited to launch new and cost-effective solutions that will have a significant impact on the health of communities in India, the US and around the world," Sten Vermund, Dean, Yale School of Public Health, said.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- accelerators, startups
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Press release: GSMA Report Highlights 20 Per Cent Annual Increase in Mobile Money Accounts to More Than 866 Million Worldwide
“The mobile money industry is fast-evolving against a backdrop of increasing internet access and smartphone adoption, and now more than ever, mobile’s unparalleled global scale provides a tremendous opportunity to reach the 1.7 billion people who remain financially excluded.”
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- Finance
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Smart feature phones with “light” operating systems are the future of Africa’s mobile growth
Africa’s young and fast-expanding markets are increasingly seen by the telecoms industry as the future of growth. Various African governments, operators, and entrepreneurs have announced or launched plans to develop their own home-grown phones.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: Social Alpha and Tata Trusts-PATH Impact Lab announce the winning innovations of the ‘Social Alpha Quest for Healthcare Innovations’
Social Alpha Quest for Healthcare Innovations program is an intensive 12 - 15 months program where the cohort will receive comprehensive support from Social Alpha and Tata Trusts–PATH Impact Lab to scale their innovations to the next stage of product development.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Study: How microfinance may lead to indebtedness
The authors found that more than 56% of the households in rural areas and 35% in urban areas were over-indebted, on the basis of a survey of 280 rural and urban households from microfinance markets across 10 districts in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Kerala and West Bengal in 2015-2016.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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