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Malaria Scientist Celebrates Success After 24 Years
For Joe Cohen, a GlaxoSmithKline research scientist who has spent 24 years trying to create the world's first malaria vaccine, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 goes down as a fabulous day.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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How Businesses Can Excel as the Poor Shift to Buying in Small Packs
My colleague expressed shock at the price of packaged mushrooms in supermarkets in Eastlands compared to those in Westlands in Nairobi. The price for the same product was almost double in Eastlands compared to Westlands. She was surprised at the pricing logic, but this is just a poverty penalty. I explained that the rich always pay less than the poor in many circumstances. Micro finance institutions charge higher interest rates for loans than mainstream banks while shylocks ...
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Women Seen Key to Solving Hunger Issues in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa faces daunting problems staving off famine in coming decades but food and development experts also say one solution to the problem is obvious: empower women. "They are the major producers of food crops in Africa. If we want to make a real headway on food production, we should be able to invest in women, improve their skills and access to the inputs they require," said Namanga Ngongi, president, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a top seed producer. ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Elumelu Sees Impact Through Large-Scale Entrepreneurship
Tony Elumelu, who made a meteoric rise as a banking executive before retiring last year, knows what he’d like to accomplish with his new initiatives. "One of my greatest joys would be to look back and say I’ve helped to create ten or a hundred very successful African entrepreneurs," the 48-year-old Nigerian said during an interview in late August at the end of an event-packed visit to East Africa. ...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Cash Transfers Empower Poor Niger Women
A working paper released by Center for Global Development reports on the first randomized evaluation of a short term mobile cash transfer program in Niger . According to the paper’s findings, women in households which use m-transfers, have greater control over the spending of the cash transfer and engage in consumption and production decisions. Households using m-transfers (ZAP) pu...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe: Telecel, ZimSwitch Provide Mobile Banking
Telecel, Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile network operator in terms of subscribers, has teamed up with ZimSwitch to provide mobile banking for Zimbabweans. The service, in a country just emerging from 10 years of economic meltdown, is widely viewed as a huge breakthrough as far as technology is concerned in the country. Telecel Zimbabwe Marketing Director, Obert Mandimika, said the joint venture with one of the country’s leading banks would enable banks to offer their cust...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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For The Energy Impoverished, Hugh Whalan Is A Ray Of LED [Video]
In order to read this you’ve powered up a computer, likely turned on a light, maybe you’re also charging your phone or brewing a cup of coffee. Every one of these actions is a small sip of energy that you take for granted. "In fact, you probably struggle to remember how many times and ways you use energy in a day," notes Hugh Whalan, the co-founder of Energy In...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance Infrastructure Can Expand Access to Energy in Africa
The Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION has on Tuesday released a report ’Microfinance and Energy Poverty’ . The report highlights strategies for leveraging infrastructure of microfinance institutions and savings groups to increase access to energy in Africa. According to the findings of the report, there is a large and growing dema...
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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