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A panel convened by the World Health Organization to look at what lessons could be learnt from the Covid pandemic has recommended that high-income countries do more to help low-income countries.
Richer countries should give $19 billion to fund access to vaccines and treatments in poorer countries, and give 1 billion doses by September, The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has said.
But so far the pledges from richer countries are not big enough , says the panel s co-chair Helen Clark, and meanwhile under-vaccinated countries with Covid outbreaks are seeing spikes in death tolls.
Grab: How an Uber killer became a powerful Asian super-app
By Karishma Vaswani
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When Microsoft s Bill Gates said in 1994 that banking is necessary, banks are not , financiers and analysts alike dismissed the claims as the wild musings of an over-imaginative techie.
Fast forward a few decades and that vision is fast becoming reality.
Grab is one of the most dominant super apps in Asia, offering rides, food delivery and now, financial services.
That includes loans, insurance, payments and investments - all accessed through a mobile phone app.
Launched in 2012 as a ride-hailing app like Uber, Grab has since expanded broadly. In 2018, it pushed Uber out of South East Asia.
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