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Health Care: Commissioner Sues For Co-operation Amongst Practitioners
Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak, called for collaboration among doctors to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria. Dakwak made the call at the launch of Apollo Global Doctors Network-West Africa, in Lagos
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Practical Insight: Studies support mobile money decision making
Contextual, demand-side research can make all the difference when mobile money providers make decisions about what products and services to offer and how to attract and keep customers. In many developing countries, however, such research is often in short supply. Recent studies conducted by InterMedia shed light on the mobile money markets in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, providing insight that is not always intuitive.
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- Education
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New Evidence on How Poverty Affects Decision Making: And what the business, development community can learn from it
Many previous studies of poor populations show a relationship between poverty and counterproductive behavior. But new research in the August issue of Science magazine presents some very important evidence on how poverty affects decision making through a different channel.
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- Education
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A Shared Vision for Impact Sourcing: The Rockefeller Foundation gathering sets an agenda for supply, demand and infrastructure
The Rockefeller Foundation recently hosted stakeholders from major outsourcing destinations and a range of geographic regions at its Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss how to scale the Impact Sourcing sector. This was the first time critical players representing different parts of the industry came together to articulate a shared vision of how the outsourcing sector can create a new paradigm by placing social impact as key part of its overall value proposition.
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- Education, Technology
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Financial Innovation Goes to School
Later this month, the United Nations will discuss a high-level report on global development priorities for the period following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. Quality education is one of the global priorities that world leaders will be taking up.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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‘Market Relationships’ that Stand the Test of Time: A Q&A with TechnoServe’s Simon Winter on progress and peril in Ag development
TechnoServe is a nonprofit that is squarely focused on profits ... for low-income farmers and small businesses, that is. Simon Winter, senior vice president of development, says once market relationships are built and skill-building strengthened, sourcing costs from smallholders can absorbed in the cost of the goods being sold.
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- Agriculture, Education
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TB Is Changing: The approach to its treatment must, too
The Indian government has made progress providing free TB diagnosis and treatment to all patients in the public health sector. But more than half of all Indians seek initial care for most health concerns, including TB, in the private health sector, which has made less progress improving access to quality TB diagnosis and medicines.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Weekly Roundup – 9/21/13 – Letting No Moss Grow: The NB Case Writing Contest is gearing up
As enthusiastic as we are about launching NextBillion Financial Innovation this week, we’re not hitting the pause button. In fact, another of NextBillion’s key initiatives is about to launch in earnest: the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition. This is now the fourth year of the competition and we hope to make it just as strong as last years, hopefully stronger.
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- Education
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