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Kenya mobiles step up rivalry
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s lucrative mobile money transfer market is set for unprecedented competition following the entry of three additional telecoms operators with intention to have a piece of the sector’s billion shillings pie.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Profiting from poverty: Do some companies benefit from twisted images of Africa?
In recent years there has been a change in thinking and narrative when it comes to Africa’s representation in western media. A good example of this is The Economist’s special report last year that referred to Africa as the “Hopeful Continent”, a mere 13 years after publishing the front cover that dubbed it the “Hopeless Continent”.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nearing A Deadline, Is The World Going To Meet The Millennium Development Goals?
The latest UN appraisal shows progress, but in some areas, such as child mortality and biodiversity loss, we're falling short.
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- Impact Assessment
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TPP: Still a Terrible Deal for Poor People’s Health
When the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was leaked late last year, it confirmed everything public health watchers had warned about for years.
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- Health Care
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New Contraceptive Shot Being Released in Africa
An easy-to-use new form of the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera was introduced last week in Burkina Faso, the first of four African countries in which it will be rolled out this year.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth initiative to curb infant and maternal fatalities in Kenya
In a bid to reduce the glaring rates of child and maternal deaths annually estimated at 6.6 million and 260,000 respectively, Sub Saharan-African states are set to launch a mobile phone text messaging service to educate masses on better health care and nutrition.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What if everything we know about poor countries’ economies is totally wrong?
As China and India continue their fairly rapid paces of economic growth, a greater and greater share of extreme poverty is going to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. But if we're going to make progress there, we need to have good numbers about how various economies are faring, how income is distributed within them, and so forth.
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Zimbabwe’s high interest rates, multiple borrowings and growing debts
Zimbabwe's microfinance institutions (MFIs) doled out $170 million worth of loans to clients in the first quarter of the year with the bulk of the funds going towards domestic consumption.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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