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OPINION: How to Fund the Ebola Fight
To combat Ebola and other infectious diseases, the US could impose $3 tax on international air travel.
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Why isn’t the Reserve Bank of India excited about Modi’s financial inclusion scheme?
The central bank warned last week that a faulty rollout could create more problems than it could fix.
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Obama Goes to UN With Islamic State, Ebola on Agenda
President Barack Obama heads to the United Nations General Assembly this week with two missions: to rally international support for a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and to back his plan to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa.
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- Education, Health Care
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Gates Foundation offers to help monitor India’s ambitious financial inclusion scheme
NEW DELHI: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has offered to help in monitoring of the progress made with regard to Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, the flagship financial inclusion scheme of India's government.
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Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority plans cap on microcredit interest rates, banks on alert
Indonesia's Financial Services Authority plans to set a cap on microcredit rates this year, a move that would put domestic lenders on alert as micro-lending has been seen as the most profitable credit segment.
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UN announces mission to combat Ebola, declares outbreak ‘threat to peace and security’
The Security Council, in its first emergency meeting on a public health crisis, declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to peace and security and announced that the United Nations will deploy a new emergency health mission.
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Card payment network RuPay sees boost from Indian government’s financial inclusion scheme
The Indian government's financial inclusion drive to expand banking services in the country is giving a boost to home-grown card payment network RuPay.
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African Nations Working to Lift Ebola Travel Bans
Some African countries have agreed to lift travel bans on people arriving from Ebola-hit nations, the African Union's top official said on Monday, in a step to ease the economic pain the virus has brought to the continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa