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Press Release: Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion and HelpAge Int’l Report – Aging and Financial Inclusion: An Opportunity
Today, the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI) and HelpAge International released Aging and Financial Inclusion: An Opportunity, a report that examines the unmet financial needs of the rapidly growing global aging population, particularly in the developing world. The purpose of this report is to highlight the barriers and opportunities related to financial services in older age and throughout the aging process, a relatively neglected area of study.
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Bangladesh to Get $300 million World Bank Loan for Child Health
Bangladesh is to get a $300-million loan from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) to help improve child nutrition after a deal was signed on Monday.
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Ethiopia Backs Mobile Players for Financial Inclusion
Two mobile money platforms have launched in Ethiopia, as the country looks to improve the take-up of bank services.
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Facebook’s Internet.org Now Offering Free Connectivity to Millions in India
Internet.org is now available in India, Facebook said late Monday, potentially bringing Internet access to tens of millions of new users for the first time.
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Viewpoint: India Needs Free Market Healthcare
Healthcare is such an emotional issue that basic economics is often taken for a ride. This explains quite well India’s intention—following the release of the National Health Policy 2015 late last year—to move towards providing healthcare as a fundamental right through a universal public healthcare system.
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Firms Adopt Visa Digital Payment Card in Nigeria
Chams Mobile and Skye Bank Plc have signed an agreement to launch the Virtual Visa Card in Nigeria.
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Twitter Top Ten – 2-8-15
We rooted through the Twitterverse again this week and emerged with some excellent nuggets. In fact, the only hard part of the exercise was – as usual – narrowing the list to 10.
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Weekly Roundup – 2/7/15: Debt and Forgiveness: A drastic solution to over-indebtedness among the poor
Seven years after a financial crisis caused in part by excess debt, all the world’s major economies have higher levels of borrowing than they did in 2007, said a report released this week. Meanwhile, one country has responded to excess debt among the poor by forcing lenders to forgive it. We discuss these developments, and some great financial inclusion news coming out of India, in this Roundup.
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