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Gates Foundation Leads With Digital Payments In Financial Inclusion Initiative
Financial Inclusion // April 22, 2021

Headlines may trumpet the digital shift, the return of a booming economy, the tidal wave of eCommerce that has moved to devices, and to a world where one can buy a car with cryptocurrency. But the pandemic also has spotlighted a rift wherein cash still...

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Gates Foundation Leads With Digital Payments In Financial Inclusion Initiative

April 22, 2021
Headlines may trumpet the digital shift, the return of a booming economy, the tidal wave of eCommerce that has moved to devices, and to a world where one can buy a car with cryptocurrency. But the pandemic also has spotlighted a rift wherein cash still reigns in poorer countries around the globe, and access to […]

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Funding for African HealthTech Startups Dips 2% in 2023

February 13, 2024
African HealthTech startups raised $167 million in 2023. That total represented a 2% decline from the previous year, but it was raised during a period in which the amount raised by the broader African tech ecosystem dropped by 39%, Salient Advisory said in a report released Tuesday (Feb. 13). During 2023, the number of investments […]