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October 12, 2012
Scaling mobile money in Nigeria
This post cites key principles and facts stated in Ignacio Mas and Daniel Radcliffe’s ‘Scaling Mobile Money’, and also a number of initiatives taken up the M-PESA in Kenya to ensure that the model of m-money was well equipped with all the ingredients for success, and compares the application of […]
October 12, 2012
An overview of e-microfinance popularity in the world, and in India
This post gives an overview of the growth of e-microfinance in the world as preferred means to manage their finances, by a number of the poor in the underserved parts of the developing world. While Kiva is an organization that mainly has its lenders lend to MFIs which then lend […]
October 12, 2012
Emerging Practices in Mobile Microinsurance
This report by the GSM Association, or the GSMA explains why using mobile phones as a medium of facilitating the access to insurance is better than traditional ways of underwriting insurance. The cost of insurance does not decrease depending on the size of the insurance amount, and hence MNOs or […]
October 12, 2012
Only phones, no base stations
As many as one billion underserved and poor people in the world are still outside the reach of any mobile operator’s network, because of their far flung and remote rural locations. Mobile operators companies have also been reluctant to invest in the base of the pyramid in the rural areas, […]
October 12, 2012
700 million without broadband services
According to a report by Huawei India and Ernst & Young, more than 700 million people across the world lack access to internet and broadband services. Read more here.
October 12, 2012
Micro-working, and the potential role of mobile phones in it
Zhubajie.com is a Chinese website which employs about 4.2 million people for range of micro tasks. This number is almost twice that of the number of people employed by Walmart. With the number of mobile connections in the developing world reaching about 5 million, there is a massive job creation […]
October 12, 2012
Niger to invest US$620 million in agriculture
In the upcoming 2012-13 growing season, Niger will invest almost US$620 million on its agriculture sector. This figure is roughly 20 per cent of this year’s budget. Read more here.
October 12, 2012
Nigeria to boost cocoa production to 500,000 tonnes by 2015
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture recently announced that the country was planning to scale its cocoa production from 250,000 to about 500,000 tonnes using hybrid cocoa pods developed Nigeria researchers. Read more here.
October 12, 2012
EU and IFAD sign partnership to boost sustainable agriculture
The EU and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) recently signed an MoU in Brussels to strengthen the existing partnership between the two bodies to promote sustainable farming practices, food and nutrition security in developing countries. Read more here.
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