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IBM Signs $38 Million Deal for ATM Infrastructure Management in India
IBM has signed a Rs 260 crore deal with BTI Payments for ATM infrastructure management, as it focuses on deepening its hold on the financial services sector in India.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Youth Jobs 2.0
Youth unemployment is a complex issue with no easy fix; the global economy needs to create almost 2.5 million jobs each month to absorb the youth entering the market in the next decade. But digital technoloy offers some solutions if certain concrete steps are taken – and if there's collaboration between public and private sectors.
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- Education, Technology
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Ghana power crisis hikes healthcare costs
The ongoing power crisis is posing an even larger health disaster and it's not certain Ghana can deal with it.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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Ethical Business Actions and Poverty Reduction
Poverty alleviation is the main concern of many countries. Poverty is said to be an economic, social, cultural, political and moral phenomenon. Like the issue, its solutions are multi-faceted. It requires a collective action from governments, corporations, citizens, consumers, workers, investors and educators.
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- Agriculture
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- Asia Pacific
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Financial Inclusion: Focus on Middle India
Those wedged between India's welfare and market-driven economies have little social security even as they work under precarious employment conditions.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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They Call It ‘Silicon Savannah’: What an East African Nation Teaches About Innovation
Kenya giant mobile phone company Safaricom recently made a move that, if other technology firms in Africa follow, could have revolutionary effects. It launched a Shillings 50 million ($500,000) innovation fund.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smile, The Pan-African Wireless ISP, Has Raised $365 Million to Expand Its Network
Three years after launching Africa’s first 4G LTE services in Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria, Smile Telecoms has raised $365 million.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Key Findings From the 2015 Financial and Digital Inclusion Project Report & Scorecard
Convenient access to banking infrastructure is something many people around the world take for granted. Yet while the number of people outside the formal financial system has substantially decreased in recent years, 2 billion adults still do not have an account with a formal financial institution or mobile money provider.
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