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Indian Social Entrepreneur Shaffi Mather’s New Venture Wins the Startup of the Year Award at Startup Grind!
MUrgency has been chosen as the Startup of the Year 2016 at the prestigious Startup Grind 2016 Conference in Redwood City in Silicon Valley, Calif. MUrgency was selected from amongst 1,100 startups that applied from 200 cities around the world. As winner, Startup Grind will work with MUrgency to plug into the Startup Grind network across the world.
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Kenyans Abroad Shun High Interests Rates With Diaspora-Founded Bank
Kenyans in the diaspora are shunning high interest rates and remittance costs charged by local banks with the launch of a microfinance institution.
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Social Entrepreneur Akanksha Hazari Gets Vital Voices Global Leadership Award in Washington
Social entrepreneur Akanksha Hazari of India was honored with the Economic Empowerment Award at the 15th Annual Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday. Theranos founder and Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes presented the award to Hazari.
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PWC to Liquidate Troubled Microfinance Company DKM’s Assets to Pay Back Depositors in Ghana
PriceWaterhouse Coopers is to liquidate the assets of troubled microfinance company, DKM, to raise money to payback depositors whose monies were locked up with the company, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana said Tuesday.
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Mapping the Path to Full Financial Inclusion
When attempting to solve a complex development challenge, we often jump from creating ambitious goals to making plans, without first identifying who we need to reach with our goals, where those people reside, and what challenge and opportunities they face. That’s why one of the underappreciated keys to meeting a development goal is to draw a map - and why maps provide the theme for this year's State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report: Mapping Pathways out of Poverty.
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An Economic Thinker With a Giving Soul, Priya Naik
A Master in Economics from Yale Uni, Priya Naik had already worked with two social startups before she founded Samhita Social Venutres. Since a very young age, Priya has been doing what people only think about doing in their lifetime. Founder and CEO, Priya has been working extensively in the areas of nature conservation, art, education for differently-abled children, and livelihood generation through micro enterprise.
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Village Capital and PayPal Strengthen Relationship to Improve Access to Financial Services Across the Globe
Today, Village Capital, the venture development organization that finds, trains and funds entrepreneurs working to solve global challenges, and PayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:PYPL), the global technology platform and payments leader, announced an expanded global relationship to support entrepreneurs focused on democratizing access to financial services for low-wealth individuals, families and small businesses. Together, with the support of local ecosystem partners, they will operate three venture development programs in 2016, supporting emerging FinTech innovators in Latin America, the United States and India. The joint initiative represents the first time a lead program partner has entered into a global collaboration with Village Capital to accelerate innovation in one of its areas of impact.
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100 Globally Competitive Startups in Ghana
Across the world, outstanding stories are told of both the young and old becoming more innovative in delivering competitive solutions to the problems that the world faces daily. From the Mark Zuckerbergs of United States of America to the Aliko Dangotes of Nigeria, the exploits of individuals in business are shaping the world and transforming economies.
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