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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
Workers prepare to remove an electoral poster of Gambia's outgoing president Yahya Jammeh.

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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