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OPINION: Why India, not China, is a better investment partner for Africa
Did you read the story on Chinese investment in Africa? They’re being published in droves, usually with a vaguely racist headline, like “Booming African lion economies gear up to emulate Asians.”
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Financial Inclusion Under the Microscope: Which countries scored highest in Accion’s “Global Microscope 2014”?
Accion’s Global Microscope evaluates the environment for financial inclusion in 55 different countries, on indicators that include government support, the supervision of microfinance and other financial products, the status of credit reporting, regulations governing mobile banking, and consumer protection. Sonja Kelly runs through some winners and losers.
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Separating Potential from Panacea: USAID’s primer offers a disciplined approach to market shaping
While market shaping can be transformative, it’s not a cure-all. USAID’s primer offers a disciplined approach to examining a health product market and evaluating whether and how market shaping could increase access for end users.
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- Health Care
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- governance, supply chains
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China To Build Liberia Health System
The government of the People’s Republic of China has pledged that as a plan for the post-Ebola period, it will work with other international partners to help build and modernize Liberia’s health sector.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania looks to India to set up tele-medicine network
A high-level delegation of medical experts from Tanzania led by its Health Minister Seif Suleiman Rashid today visited the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences here to study its tele-medicine programme with a view to setting up a similar facility in their country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, public health
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US sends health official to Cuban Ebola meeting
U.S. and Cuban health officials sat together in Havana on Wednesday to discuss Latin America's response to Ebola, the most concrete sign so far of the nations' desire to cooperate against the epidemic despite decades of tense relations.
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Goa will be India’s first state to achieve 100% financial inclusion, say officials
Panaji: With 95% of the house-to-house survey completed and the procedure to allot accounts to Goans done, Goa may well be the first state to be entirely covered under the Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana. With this, Goa will be the first state to achieve complete financial inclusion, officials close to the development said.
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Could reforms unlock Mexico’s “huge” microfinance potential?
Mexico's financial reforms could help the country's microfinance industry fulfill its "huge potential" for growth, rating agency S&P said in a report.
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