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Press release: Village Capital, PayPal launch African fintech investment readiness program
Global venture capital (VC) firm Village Capital has collaborated with US payment platform PayPal to launch a three-month investment readiness program, Village Capital Fintech Africa 2018.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Technology cannot solve all of Africa’s problems, but it can help with many
That tech and innovation can play a big role in making some countries richer than others is not in question. About half the differences in GDP per person between countries are due to differences in productivity.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press release: South African Fintech Startup JUMO Awarded $150 000 Prize by Mastercard Foundation for Client Help
Mastercard said in a press release yesterday that close to 100 financial service companies around the world submitted entries to the competition. An international panel of judges selected three finalists who presented to the audience at the 2017 Symposium on Financial Inclusion in Accra, Ghana.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Formula for Health Equity
What could an economically advanced country like the United States possibly learn from the health-care success of a tiny, impoverished African country like Rwanda? Two things: how to broaden access and improve health outcomes while sharply reducing the cost of care.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s political opposition is asking supporters to stop using M-Pesa mobile money
Just as he urged his supporters to quit the vote, Odinga now called on them to cancel their subscriptions with the country’s biggest mobile operator and to not purchase dairy products from Brookside and cooking oils from Bidco.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Zambia Launches Its First National Financial Inclusion Strategy
The strategy, policy and the survey report are a product of extensive stakeholder consultations with members of the public sector, private sector, civil society organizations, and academia led by the Government's National Financial Inclusion Drafting Committee. The strategy will guide Zambia in its plan to achieve the universal access and use of a broad range of affordable financial products and services.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Poor policy slowing Kenya’s ICT sector as neighbors take lead
Today, much of the traction witnessed in the last seven years has slowed to a crawl. Growth in Kenya’s ICT sector has petered out and the country is now struggling to attract fresh technology financing and prove its competitiveness amidst competition from new emerging markets such as Rwanda and Ethiopia. A recent report looking into startup financing in the region found that local e-health startups barely managed to take two per cent of Sh1.9 billion in funding that went to the sector in the last three years.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy
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Safaricom sets up online sales portal as net profit hits $252 million
Telecommunications firm Safaricom has established an online sales platform in a move expected to roil Kenya’s fast-growing e-commerce market.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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