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Weekly Roundup – 8/21/15 : Private Education, Brought to You By Social Entrepreneurs:
The Economist recently took a long look at the burgeoning private school education industry across emerging markets, and its relative benefits/weaknesses - as well as some government efforts to regulate it out of existence. Given the choice between under-resourced public schools and a generally more reliable and higher quality private education, more parents (even those with very low incomes) are opting for the market approach than ever before.
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- Health Care
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Will West Africa be the New East Africa in Mobile Money?: Shifting regulations and a growing ecosystem make the region an area to watch
Though the member countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union share one currency and one central bank, their mobile money ecosystems differ greatly. However, interoperability will likely be integrated across most of these countries in the not too distant future. Could its new regulatory regimes and developing ecosystems help the region take its place alongside the mobile money sprinters of East Africa?
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- Technology
