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June 12, 2013 - 11:17am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
On Saturday, at the nutrition for growth summit, we listened to President Joyce Banda of Malawi discuss her commitment to addressing malnutrition in her country. After hearing Banda's plan to leverage investment ...
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June 12, 2013 - 5:00am
from MicroCapital
Vodafone Group Private Limited Corporation, a British multinational mobile network operator, and the ICICI Bank, a commercial bank in India, have announced that they have expanded Vodafone’s mobile pesa (M-Pesa) cash transfer service to India. The service allows users to send and receive funds using mobile phones. Funds can be deposited to and withdrawn from M-Pesa accounts at 8,300 authorized outlets in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Vodacom currently offers the M-Pesa ...
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June 10, 2013 - 12:44pm
from MicroCapital
Vodacom, a South Africa-based mobile communications company owned by UK-based Vodafone, reportedly has announced the expansion its mobile pesa (M-Pesa) cash transfer service to Mozambique. The service allows users to send and receive funds using mobile phones. Funds can be deposited to and withdrawn from M-Pesa accounts at authorized outlets. Vodacom currently offers the M-Pesa service via affiliates in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Mozambique, South Africa and ...
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June 7, 2013 - 5:42pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This weekend, the UK government will host a "nutrition for growth" summit in London. The meeting is expected to expand the G8's new alliance for food security and nutrition, a special initiative launched in 2012 to mobilise private capital for investment in ...
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May 30, 2013 - 8:40am
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Great to hear that the second funding round of the Strategic Partnerships stream of The Girls’ Education Challenge is now open. As you may have read previously, this Challenge will provide match-funding to support strategic partnerships that have ...
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May 29, 2013 - 1:22am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Tanzania: NMB Shareholders Endorse Sh34 Billion Dividend"
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May 28, 2013 - 4:18pm
from MicroCapital
Ghana-based Star Microinsurance Company Limited reportedly has paid some of the victims of the Kantamanto and Agbogbloshie markets fire outbreak in the Ghanian city of Accra a total insurance claim of GHS 115,000 (USD 57,629) through its partners MicroEnsure Ghana, an insurance intermediary and subsidiary of US-based nonprofit Opportunity International, and Advans Ghana Savings and Loans, a non-bank financial institution that focuses on micro enterprise. [1]
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May 24, 2013 - 3:01am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Mozambique: Vodacom Launches M-Pesa Service"
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May 23, 2013 - 1:33am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Mozambique: Vodacom Launches M-Pesa Service"
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May 21, 2013 - 3:17pm
from MicroCapital
MicroFinance Transparency (MFTransparency), a US-based nongovernmental organization that provides information on microcredit products and their prices, recently revealed the Truth in Lending Tables (TILT) Data Platform that displays the interest rates and fees charged to 40 million microfinance clients of 429 institutions across 20 countries. The datasets also display the new Pricing Transparency Index (PTI), MFTransparency’s scale for rating the level of transparency of a price, whereby ...
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May 21, 2013 - 12:19pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The African Union (AU) is now 50 years old. Amid the celebrations this week, the AU – which was established as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
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May 10, 2013 - 3:37pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Brigit Helms, Director, Support Program for Enterprise and Economic Development (SPEED)
It’s hard to imagine a more explosive, transformative, and empowering trend than the growth of the mobile phone sector in Africa. In 1998 there were fewer than 4 million phones on the continent; today there are around 800 million—a ...
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May 9, 2013 - 9:04am
from Acumen Fund Blog
Editor’s note: a version of this post from our former Global Fellows Manager first appeared on her blog and has been posted with permission.
Since I left Acumen about eight months ago to work with Ray Chambers, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy ...
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April 18, 2013 - 1:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It's time to confront our continent's least endearing trait: conflict. This recurring phenomenon is perpetuating poverty and preventing the fulfilment of Africa's potential as a whole. In recent months, relapses into conflict in the Central African Republic, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have ...
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April 12, 2013 - 2:57pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In the constant fight between microbes and people, attempts to rein in the malarial parasite have just taken an interesting turn. On Thursday the founder of Amyris Biotech triumphantly announced production of
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April 11, 2013 - 4:53pm
from MicroCapital
MicroFinance Transparency (MFTransparency), a US-based NGO, is bringing its “Transparent Pricing Initiative” to Morocco. The initiative is being sponsored in Morocco by the Netherlands Platform for Microfinance, a network of 16 organizations in the Netherlands that provide microfinance funding and consulting. The project will be delivered in partnership with France-based credit rating agency Planet Rating and Centre Mohammed VI de Soutien a la Microfinance Solidaire (CMS), a Moroccan ...
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April 9, 2013 - 1:18pm
from Microfinance Africa
Casablanca, Morocco, 9th April, 2013 - MicroFinance Transparency is organizing a workshop in Casablanca, Morocco to mark the official launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Morocco. The Initiative is ...
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April 9, 2013 - 1:16pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Casablanca, Morocco, 9th April, 2013 - MicroFinance Transparency is organizing a workshop in Casablanca, Morocco to mark the official launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Morocco. The Initiative is sponsored by the Netherlands Platform for Microfinance (NPM) and delivered in partnership with Planet Rating and Centre Mohammed VI de Soutien à la Microfinance Solidaire (CMS).
The Transparent Pricing ...
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March 29, 2013 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Ears Earth Environment Monitoring Limited, a subsidiary of the Netherlands-based remote sensing company Ears Holding, is offering its Food Early Solutions for Africa (FESA) microinsurance system free of charge to microinsurance providers. The service is based on data collected by a series of meteorological satellites operated by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), an intergovernmental organization that tracks global climate patterns. ...
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March 21, 2013 - 11:17am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The Polana Caniço health facility, which treats more than 200,000 patients each year, is in a densely populated area in Mozambique's capital, Maputo. It's early morning and the hospital is already filling up with patients, mostly mothers with young children. However, there are also students here for training on how to use new equipment that will provide critical ...
