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Kenya’s Airtel sticks to its case against Safaricom
Kenyan operator Airtel has pledged to continue its case against larger rival Safaricom over what it charges for access to its M-Pesa mobile money transfer service, said Business Daily.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can India Achieve Financial Inclusion within the Next Few Years?
The new Government of India has made financial inclusion one of the corner stones in its modernization aspirations for the country.
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The Missing Link in Financial Inclusion: Addressing India’s financial literacy gap
India is at an inflection point on the road to financial inclusion, writes Radhika Binani of the Dell Foundation. On the one hand, the country has made considerable progress in the last few years in expanding access to financial products. But even among Indians who have accounts, usage is low. The missing link, she says, is financial literacy, and she describes five design principles for delivering it.
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- Education
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Africans Open Fuller Wallets to the Future
JOHANNESBURG — Across sub-Saharan Africa, consumer demand is fueling the continent’s economies in new ways, driving hopes that Africa will emerge as a success story in the coming years comparable to the rise of the East Asian Tigers in the second half of the 20th century.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Next Big Thing You Missed: Bigger, Cheaper Fuel Cells Will Eliminate Power Outages
General Electric has a bright idea for keeping the lights on even when the electrical grid short-circuits. The 122-year-old company wants to bring clean, reliable, affordable energy to the masses with hyper-efficient fuel cells , and in a rare move, is launching a startup to do it.
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A new kind of no-frills bank could kickstart India’s long-awaited mobile money revolution
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is one of the few institutions Indians respect (paywall). India’s central bank is known for being clean, sensible, and well-run. It is also extremely cautious
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Financial Inclusion in Paraguay: New Mobile Money Regulation
The opportunity to increase financial access in Paraguay is massive.
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The BRICS new development bank: A historic game-changer?
Following two years of intense negotiations, the BRICS leaders agreed on 15 July 2014 in Fortaleza (Brazil) to launch the New Development Bank (NDB).
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