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Price of ‘exciting’ self-injectable contraceptive cut
Sayana Press dispenses with the need for a conventional needle and syringe - so it has been seen as a significant development for women living in rural parts of Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania Join World Economic Forum in Promoting Financial Inclusion in East Africa
This effort aims to develop collaboration between policy-makers, private-sector providers of financial services and their clients, and other relevant actors. East Africa has already made significant strides towards financial inclusion, leveraging digital and other means to raise the number of adults that have an account to 34 percent in 2014, up from 24 percent in 2011.
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China Ready to Build First Center For Disease Control in Africa
Providing more detail about the plan on Tuesday in Beijing, Mr. Feng Yong, Deputy Director for International Cooperation at China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission, said 100 hospitals and clinics will be built in 5 years, 120,000 persons will be train in China, and the provision of 150,000 scholarships, as well as 500,000 vocational and technical training in 5 years.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, SDGs
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Kenya: Risks to Safaricom Outstrip Mere Business
This issue is even more pertinent considering that the electoral agency will require a technology partner to provide results transmission services during the upcoming general election.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Seeks $5.2 Billion From World Bank for Electricity
Africa’s most populous nation produces about 4,000 megawatts of power compared with a average peak generation of about 35,000 megawatts in South Africa, with a population that’s less than a third of the size of Nigeria’s 180 million people. The lack of supply increases production costs for many businesses forced to provide their own electricity, mostly using diesel-run generators.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A quarter of African children to be privately educated by 2021
Innovative private sector teaching models, such as that employed by controversial for-profit school chain Bridge International Academies, enjoy high-profile backing, including from some of the world's most esteemed donors and aid organisations like philanthropist Bill Gates, the World Bank and the UK’s Department for International Development.
But not everyone agrees. NGOs, teaching unions and a United Nations expert are among those that have decried the increasing reliance on such low-cost private schools,- Categories
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Savings groups boost financial inclusion and women’s empowerment among rural poor, three-country study finds
“What we’re seeing is that that the poor can and do save for themselves when given the right opportunity, and this has positive effects elsewhere in their lives,” says Dean Karlan, professor of economics at Yale and co-author of the study. “We see savings and business income increase, but importantly there is also a boost in women’s empowerment. As women get more access to these groups, their say in household decisions also increases.”
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6 Surprising Reasons Why South Africans Are Not Big On Banks
BCG recently undertook extensive research into the process of financial inclusion in South Africa. This primary research which is based on surveys, interviews and a fresh analytical approach, yielded several interesting themes about the country’s use and perceptions of formal banking channels. Bringing more people into the financial system has the ability to enhance GDP growth, reduce poverty and create new market opportunities for the private sector.
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