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Rajiv Shah And Tony Blair On Impact Investing
A new investment fund structured by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will, for the first time, allow individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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OPINION: A shaky vision for financial inclusion in India
The Nachiket Mor committee report does not address the issues that militate against financial inclusion.
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Nachiket Mor discusses his ambitious financial inclusion proposals for India
A few years ago, when he was based in Thanjavur after leaving ICICI Bank, Nachiket Mor used to decline requests from the press about financial inclusion, saying he had left that discipline. Over the past few months, however, he has come back into the field. He is on the RBI board. More recently, a committee headed by him just submitted an ambitious report on financial inclusion. ET's Vidhya Sivaramakrishnan met Mor for a chat.
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Kenya plans heavy penalties for rogue mobile subscribers and operators
Kenya plans to tame rogue mobile subscribers and operators through stiffer penalties in a new set of laws to be published this week.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, mobile finance
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Ghana to limit microfinance licenses
Bank of Ghana (BoG) seeks to put a ceiling on the rising number of microfinance companies in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, microfinance
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Will taxes kill mobile money in Africa?
One sector continues to show growth in Africa and demonstrate the genuine potential the continent has to leapfrog global counterparts: mobile money services. However, recent media reports have highlighted one controversial aspect of the mobile money transfer market that continues to generate news headlines: taxation on mobile money services offered by network operators.
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- governance, mobile finance
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Will Health Benefit From India’s New CSR Rules?: Impact of the new law, which kicks in April 1, still being debated
“Social business projects” are encouraged under India’s new corporate social responsibility laws, and that bodes well for social entrepreneurs and anyone wanting to innovate in trying to reach people at the Bottom of the Pyramid.
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- Health Care
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The Next Era of Global Health? Follow the Money
As more and more money flows through the global health domain, and emerging economies and companies take a more influential role in it, new approaches are needed to help the agenda adapt. Creating a commission on the financial and commercial health environment, a funding mechanism for global public goods for health and a high-level independent panel on health impact would all help drive it forward.
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- Health Care