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Portable Solar Power to the People
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, is commercialising its solar powered portable LED lamps with mobile phone charger, the Mobiya TS 120S, in order to offer innovative, reliable and affordable products to people living without access to electricity.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Rwanda’s Clinics Have Gone Off-Grid and Onto Renewable Energy
Rwanda is located in the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, it is making advances with off-grid renewable energy solutions for rural areas that could be a model for similar economies.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodacom Tanzania Plans $100 Million Expansion in Rural Areas
Vodacom Tanzania Ltd., the country’s biggest mobile operator, will spend 200 billion shillings ($100 million) expanding its network this year to tap market potential in rural areas and add mobile-money subscribers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial Inclusion: How Banking Is Coming to India’s Countryside
One of the ways that Indian Prime Minister Modi is trying to get more Indians into the financial system is by delivering state support straight into bank accounts of those who need it rather than via costly price subsidies.
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- South Asia
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$1.4 Billion Fund Targets Eco-Social Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) has announced the launch of five dedicated investment funds that will target high growth industries while promoting economic and social development in Angola and the Sub-Saharan region.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Foundations Like Ronnie Screwvala’s Swades Are Helping Entrepreneurs Emerge From Rural India
For Ronnie Screwvala this was an unusual success story. At a community centre in Khamgaon, a village 166 km south of Mumbai, he engaged a group of 25 rural women, all dressed in pink, aged between 30 and 40, in a discussion on sanitary napkins with great enthusiasm.
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Indian Payments Company Oxigen Eyeing Up to $200 Million Expansion Drive
Payment solutions provider Oxigen is on a major expansion drive that includes hiring about 1,500 people and ramping up its payment network across semi-urban and rural India. The firm is also eyeing a large share of the remittances market and prepares the ground for launching a payments bank.
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- South Asia
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Four Major Banks Launch Branchless Banking Program in Indonesia
The Financial Services Authority (OJK), along with four of the nation’s largest banks, launched on Thursday a nationwide campaign on financial services without physical branches to help boost access to the banking system in rural areas.
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- Asia Pacific
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