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Has The SEC Made Equity Crowdfunding Economically Unfeasible?
It seems that The SEC has created a quagmire of complicated rules and economic roadblocks.
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How Smart Policy Can Promote Financial Inclusion: A Q&A with Alfred Hannig, founder and executive director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion
It can be hard to even keep up with the innovations that are reshaping global finance. Imagine how hard it is to regulate them. In this Q&A, Alfred Hannig, founder and executive director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, discusses the challenges of balancing innovation and consumer protection in a shifting financial landscape.
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Microfinance in the Crosshairs: Will Kyrgyzstan’s usury bill backfire?
Microfinance has become a subject of controversy, as predatory lenders and unfair interest rates have tarnished its image and led to government interventions. But in Kyrgyzstan, a country with little financial regulation and no sovereign credit rating, increasing regulations may soon have negative consequences for the very clients they’re intended to protect.
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A Financial Inclusion Revolution?: How last mile delivery and payment systems innovations could help transform India’s economy
India has been fertile ground for many emerging market innovations, in sectors ranging from health care to sustainable energy. Now the country is on the cusp of a financial inclusion revolution shaped by payment system innovations and doorstep delivery models. If it succeeds, it may provide a model of how innovation and forward-thinking public policy can help transform BoP economies.
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India’s Banks not Inclusive Enough
Are commercial banking (as it is currently practiced in India) and attainment of financial inclusion mutually exclusive?
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Safaricom Cautions Kenya Over Higher Taxes
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom, has warned the government that further increases in Excise Tax – a duty levied on goods or services for sale – will make mobile payment services less affordable for poorer citizens.
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What’s Working – and What’s Not – in Global Health: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 1
BoP countries are increasingly embracing the private health care sector and using public financing to support better development of the market. In this Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other developments on the global health landscape.
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What ails Indian Healthcare?
In April 2012, there were reports of India’s health expenditure being the lowest in comparison to the BRIC Nations despite growing as fast as them. A year later, the ‘progress report’ barely shows any progress.
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- Health Care
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