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New legislation to regulate micro finance companies
Legislation to regulate and supervise microfinance institutions, including finance companies and banks accepting deposits from the public, will be introduced in Parliament.
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- governance, microfinance
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African Governments Still Underfunding Health
Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015, just six countries have met this goal.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Is there a role for foreign development assistance in middle income Asia?
Across Asia countries are rapidly transitioning from low to middle income status. This transition is enormously positive, pulling millions of Asians out of poverty, massively increasing levels of education, and creating new opportunities for employment and wealth accumulation. But the ‘miracle’ of Asian growth is deeply unequal, with many in middle-income Asia continuing to experience extreme poverty, and exclusion from the benefits of the thriving regional economy.
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- South Asia
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- governance
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China believes in UNIDO, why don’t the rest of us?
The election of China's Li Yong to UNIDO's top slot reveals the country's growing commitment to development.
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance
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How Brazil can win back investors
Investors will be waiting on the sidelines until they see that Brasilia is making a true and concerted effort to stamp out corruption and govern in a way fitting for the world's seventh-largest economy.
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- Latin America
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- governance
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Rwanda is building a strong economic reputation
Ask any expat about Rwanda and its bloody genocide is likely to feature strongly, rather than the fact it has one of the world’s best performing economies.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Let’s set a global drug quality benchmark
The crisis in Indian pharma is a chance to develop a new regulatory path
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Q&A: Jeffrey Sachs on the world’s post-MDG future
The UN special advisor and director of a key science network tells SciDev.Net what the road to 2015 will look like.
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- Health Care