NextBillion - A WDI Publication

Business Joins African Effort to Cut Malaria

Excerpt: With malaria spread across southern Mozambique, executives at the international mining company Billiton expected some workers to call in sick as it began building a massive new aluminum smelter amid the cornfields here. What they did not expect was that nearly one in three employees would fall ill ? 6,600 cases in just two years. And they certainly did not expect 13 deaths, not after the company had built a medical clinic, doused the construction site with pesticides and hand...

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The New York Times (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda: The Village Phone Comes to Rwanda

Excerpt: The Grameen Foundation of USA, in collaboration with MTN Rwanda, is re-energising its Village Phone scheme to bring mobile telephones to rural communities where no telecom services have existed before....

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AllAfrica.com (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Remittances Policy That Works: The Case Of Ghana.

Abstract: In an opinion piece, Yaw Sophism discusses Ghana’s policy for remittances....

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GhanaHomePage (link opens in a new window)

Categories

Uncategorized

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Tags

remittances

The New Frontlines of Capitalism: Microcredit Comes to Borguind?

Abstract: A Peace Corp volunteer writes about her experience starting a microfinance program in Burkina Faso....

Source

The Globalist (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

MTN eyes 3G, mobile banking launch in Nigeria

Abstract: Cellular giant MTM expects to apply for a liscence to provide mobile banking services in Nigeria....

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Reuters South Africa (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

Grameen Shakti, Rahimafrooz win world’s leading green energy award

Abstract: The Ashden Awards recognized four "pioneering projects from Bangladesh, India, Mexico and Tanzania," which brought electricity to rural areas through green power....

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Financial Express (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

South Africa: Good Business

Excerpt: LAST week’s launch of the South African Social Investment Exchange (Sasix) serves to reinforce the idea that local business is concerned about more than just its own profits. The social investment exchange works very much like a stock exchange, except that in this instance companies place their money in a particular project, and receive a social return -- the upliftment and development of a worthy cause -- as opposed to a monetary return. The id...

Source

AllAfrica.com (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa

MTN takes internet to poor

Excerpt: An initiative to provide convenient internet connectivity as well as access to a wealth of education information via a bespoke online portal to some of the country’s poorest communities was launched on Wednesday by mobile services operator MTN....

Source

Myadsl.co.za (link opens in a new window)

Region

Sub-Saharan Africa