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Investing for Good on Rise in Africa
Almost half of all assets under investment in three of Africa’s most significant economies are being invested for good in some way, according to new research from the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, a specialised unit at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB).
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Having a Bank Account Means Very Little
The number of South Africans who use their bank account simply as a storage tool – making one withdrawal a month and then transacting using cash – rose to 11 million in 2015 from 9 million in 2014, indicating poor financial inclusion, a recent study finds.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Affordable and Effective Vaccine Brings Africa Close to Elimination of Meningitis A
For a century, epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa killing and disabling young people every year. The disease is highly feared on the continent; it can kill or cause severe brain damage within hours.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Africa mobile comms giant MTN’s $5.2bn Nigerian fine: Now the CEO resigns
A massive fine imposed on MTN Group by Nigerian regulators for alleged compliance failings has cost the firm's CEO Sifiso Dabengwa his job.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Tops African Medical Tourism to India Chart
Nigeria is leading the chart of Africans seeking medical care in India, with about 42.4 per cent.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda Leads Push for Permanent Waiver on Drug Patents
Uganda is leading the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) in the ongoing showdown talks at the World Trade Organisation headquarters in Geneva, where America remains the only powerful country still refusing to grant a permanent waiver on patents on medicines.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Cash Far More Popular Than Cards and Mobile Money Among Kenyan Online Shoppers
Only 1% of over 80,000 shoppers sampled in the 3rd quarter of this year used cards to pay for products they purchased online, 27 percent preferred to pay via mobile money transfer before or after delivery, while a whopping 72 percent preferred to pay in cash on delivery, according to an internal survey released by Kenyan e-tailer Jumia.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe: Boom Times Over for Mobile Telecoms
Economic slowdown and excessive regulatory fees and charges, an unpredictable environment and the extraordinary growth in social media platforms, are beginning to take their toll on the mobile phone industry.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa