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With Bangladesh on Visa’s Target List, Credit Card QR Codes Are Here, There, and Everywhere
In progressive, emerging markets, debit card usage is closer to 30%, and credit card usage is at least in single digits, indicating at least some progress in financial inclusion.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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How To Design A Female-Friendly Toilet
Interviewing 312 girls in three provinces in Pakistan, the researchers found toilets showed "gender-insensitive design," lacked disposal options for menstrual products and were unsafely located.
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- WASH
- Region
- South Asia
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Bill, Melinda Gates Pour $200 Million in Pakistan’s Poverty Alleviation Program
“I’m pleased that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will assist with a range of activities including accelerating stunting reduction programs, supporting financial inclusion initiatives and investing in public health systems to improve health and reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality,” Prime Minister Imran Khan said at the occasion.
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- South Asia
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Kreditech, the AI-Based Near-Prime Loans Platform, Nabs $22m Under New CEO to Expand Globally
This is an equity round that it will be using to continue building its business specifically in the latter of those four countries — doubling down on the fact that India is not only one of the world’s biggest economies, but one of the fastest-growing, too.
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- Finance
- Region
- South Asia
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How E-commerce Platforms Are Facilitating Small Business Owners for Selling Online in India
E-commerce players are expanding beyond metropolitan cities to bring innovative sellers’ products on their platforms.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- e-commerce, MSMEs
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Aavishkaar Group Scoops up $37 Million in Fresh Financing From FMO
Aavishkaar Group, one of the world’s largest impact investors, has raised $37 million in fresh financing from Dutch development finance institution FMO.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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The Dirty Business of Cement Gets a Clean Up from MIT
Is it possible to change how the most ubiquitous building material on earth is made — one so dirty that it accounts for nearly a tenth of greenhouse gases, yet so cheap to produce that it costs less per kilogram than bottled water?
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Indian Government Expands Scope of CSR Spending
Till now, companies were allowed to provide CSR funds to technology incubators located within Centre-approved academic institutions.
- Region
- South Asia
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