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Analysis: How the Cloud Is Helping Drive Financial Inclusion in India
By using a secure cloud infrastructure, digital banking providers can look to reduce infrastructure complexity and improve their security posture. In the process, they will be able to free up in-house IT teams to use their talent for higher-value tasks.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Renewable Energy Projects in Rural Ghana Have Some Built-in Limitations
Despite efforts, internationally funded renewable energy projects in Africa have often failed after these organizations withdrew their support.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative Financing Secures 28 New Minigrids in Nigeria
These 28 distributed renewable energy (DRE) systems, designed as solar PV and battery-powered minigrids, aim to connect 55,000 people to electricity in rural areas.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Delivering Babies in the Dark: How Solar Systems Can Enhance Health Service Delivery in Rural Medical Facilities
The healthcare systems of vulnerable communities across the globe are being hindered by a lack of electricity, but solar technology can offer solutions, say Tokozile N. Ngwenya and John Keane at SolarAid and Hannah Blair and Siena Hacker at CLASP. They explain how the Efficiency for Access Coalition has partnered with SolarAid to equip rural health facilities in Malawi and Zambia with solar systems, and explore what needs to happen to scale these approaches.
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- Energy, Health Care
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Press Release: Renewvia Energy Receives $1 Million Commitment from SIMA Fund to Electrify Communities in Rural Kenya
Social Investment Managers and Advisors LLC (SIMA), a new generation of impact investment manager, and Renewvia Energy Corporation, a global solar developer, today announced a partnership to electrify rural communities in Kenya underserved by conventional utilities.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rural Fintech Startup Jai Kisan Raises $30 Million in Series A Funding
Rural fintech startup Jai Kisan on Monday said it has raised $30 million (approximately Rs217 crore), in a combination of equity and debt, as a part of its Series A round of funding led by Mirae Asset.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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World Bank Approves $700 Million for Water Supply, Sanitation Programs in Nigeria
The World Bank has approved the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Program (SURWASH).
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- WASH
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Asirvad Microfinance Raises $15 Million From WorldBusiness Capital Inc
Asirvad Microfinance, a subsidiary of Manappuram Finance, on Monday said it had raised $15 million (around Rs 110 crore) in a seven-year external commercial borrowing loan from the US-based WorldBusiness Capital Inc (WBC).
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- Finance
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- Asia Pacific
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