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GSK Opens Global Vaccine Center in Rockville, MD
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today will officially open its newest global vaccines R&D center in Rockville, MD, where the pharma giant will base 450 researchers and support staffers and spend $50 million over the next 2 years on technology and equipment.
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America’s Poor Still Lack Access to Basic Banking Services
Despite a sprawling and varied financial industry, more than one-quarter of Americans don’t have adequate access to basic banking tools, such as checking accounts, credit cards, or loans for instance. That group—known as the underbanked—is made up of those who suffer the most from growing inequality and systemic marginalization: Americans with low incomes, those with less than a college degree, and minorities.
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A Zika vaccine is being developed at warp speed, but will there be a market for it?
When top US health authorities convened in late January to brief President Barack Obama on the Zika outbreak in Latin America, the post-meeting scuttlebutt was that the president was eager to push development of a Zika vaccine.
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U.N. Apologizes for Role in Haiti’s 2010 Cholera Outbreak
After six years and 10,000 deaths, the United Nations issued a carefully worded public apology on Thursday for its role in the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti and the widespread suffering it has caused since then.
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New Research and Policy Center to Address Future of Financing Global Health
A new policy lab opening today at the Duke Global Health Institute will address financing solutions aimed at improving the health of the world’s poor. Specifically, the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health will focus on three significant gaps in global health financing.
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The Hitachi Foundation Launches the Good Companies, Good Jobs Strategy; Makes $11 Million in Gifts as it Prepares to Close
The Hitachi Foundation today announced the launch of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Strategy that includes three final gifts totaling $11 million and that the Foundation will cease operations in December 2016. The unrestricted monetary gifts and their recipients are $4 million to the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC; $4 million to the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and $3 million to Investors' Circle in Durham, North Carolina.
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UNCDF releases its 1st Digital Financial Services Toolkit
UNCDF’s MicroLead program team is proud to introduce its series of practical toolkits titled, "How to Succeed in Your Digital Journey: a Series of Toolkits for Financial Service Providers”. The toolkits (available both in French and English) are designed for financial service providers (FSPs) who want to go digital.
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- fintech, microfinance
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OPIC Announces $3.7 Billion in New Commitments for FY2016
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today announced $3.7 billion in financing and insurance commitments during Fiscal Year 2016 to support economic development in emerging markets. OPIC’s portfolio reached a record-setting $21.5 billion across 100 developing countries and the Agency marked the 39th year of achieving its mission at no net cost to taxpayers.
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- insurance