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Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman Calls for Global Cooperation as Aid Funding Slumps

The foundation plans to spend down its $86 billion endowment while rallying donors to reverse global aid declines.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Can blockchain technology help poor people around the world? April 30, 2017 9.57pm EDT No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain.

How Blockchain Technology Can Help Poor People Around the World

Already becoming a darling of Wall Street, blockchain technology's biggest real benefits could come to the world's poorest people. Here's how.
By Nir Kshetri
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Fake News from Africa

How did boorish upstart, President Jammeh of the Gambia, long outmaneuver the wily West?
By David Hecht

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