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Mobile tech on the Africa health frontier
Billions have been spent to bring AIDS medicines to patients in Africa, but a technology with just as much lifesaving potential can be had for pennies: the text message.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘While the US may be late to the party, it has a lot to offer Africa’
Africa offers US multinationals a compelling trade and investment opportunity thanks to the rapid economic growth rates being experienced across the continent along with burgeoning population growth and increasing urbanisation, according to South African-based Standard Bank.
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Mobile Money Grows In Africa But Hurdles Remain
Industry players say a fragmented and tough regulatory environment is holding the mobile money industry back.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What Vodacom has learned from M-PESA’s initial failure in South Africa
Following a disastrous South African launch in 2010, Vodacom has redesigned and re launched m-pesa, the mobile money service that has transformed the Kenyan economy. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK considers its chances of success.
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- Telecommunications, Uncategorized
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Will Indian PM Narendra Modi’s financial inclusion plan use Aadhaar for authentication?
NEW DELHI: In less than two weeks, PM Narendra Modi is expected to announce a new Financial Inclusion drive.
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- South Asia
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Obama’s Africa legacy moment?
U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to three African countries last summer might have been dubbed the “trade not aid” tour.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: The paradox that is Indian healthcare
The best and the worst of facilities exist cheek by jowl. This glaring contradiction needs to be addressed
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: New Report on Integrated Health and Microfinance in India Shows the Way Forward
On July 29, 2014, Freedom from Hunger, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, and the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar released a new report titled "Integrated Health and Microfinance in India, Volume II: The Way Forward." The report was released in advance of the South Asia Conference on Policies and Practices to Improve Nutrition Security in New Delhi, India.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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