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Report: New Mastercard Study Reveals Financial Inclusion Momentum in Latin America, Highlights Remaining Gaps to Close
Mastercard released a new report today, The State of Financial Inclusion post COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Opportunities for the Payments Ecosystem.
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- Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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Report: Smallest Agri-SMEs in Africa Owner-Managed by Women Bore the Brunt of COVID-19
The new research was led by a team of CABI scientists and published in the journal CABI Agriculture & Bioscience.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- COVID-19, MSMEs, research, women entrepreneurs
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Analysis: India: What the Smartphone Market Tells Us About Its Economy
Even as Apple touts India as its next big growth area, clouds are gathering over the country's smartphone market.
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- Telecommunications
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- COVID-19
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‘We Should Be Worried’: Finance Leaders Warn Rising Interest Rates Are Squeezing Low-Income Countries
Public debt burdens in developing countries have been exacerbated in recent years by back-to-back global crises.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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Forget about Mobile Money, Invest in Insurtech Instead: The Untapped Triple Bottom Line Opportunity in Nigeria
Nigeria has one of the lowest insurance penetration rates in the world, at just 0.5%. But as Brian Yu at Shecluded explains, this low uptake means the industry is poised for disruption and growth. He explores how insurtech innovators are addressing the key problems plaguing the sector — namely, a lack of accessibility, affordability and customer trust — and calls for funders to look past their traditional focus on mobile money and invest in the insurtech businesses that are transforming the way the industry serves low-income customers.
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- Finance, Investing, Technology
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Press Release: Prime Bank Receives $50 Million from IFC to Support Trade, Forex Liquidity Needs in Bangladesh
The financing package is part of IFC's 'Fast Track COVID-19 Facility,' a package designed to support countries and private sectors to cope with the impacts of the pandemic.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Asian Development Bank and Cambodia Post Bank Sign $10 Million Loan to Support Recovery of MSMEs From Pandemic
The loan will expand access to finance, and at least 50% of the proceeds are marked to finance MSMEs led by women.
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- Finance, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Analysis: India’s Healthcare Sector: Here’s How a Massive Transformation Is Underway
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a massive transformation in the healthcare space.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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