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New Hospital Chain in India Brings Fresh Approach: Jeevanti looking to improve quality, availability and affordability of secondary health care
Jeevanti aspires to create a chain of 25 50-bed, secondary-care, multi-specialty hospitals in small, underserved cities in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The two existing hospitals currently offer gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, general medicine and surgery, and served 30,000 people between March 2012 and July 2013.
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Dump the ‘Stupid’ Prizes – and Increase the Rest: Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
Recently, my friend and long-time mentor Kevin Starr wrote an article entitled “Dump the Prizes,” published in Stanford Social Innovation Review. I was initially concerned, because in addition to my day job at the nonprofit One Acre Fund, I am on the board of D-Prize. However, after considering his arguments, I came to the opposite conclusion: We need more prize competitions.
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Bringing Payments Out of the Shadows: New data on how South Asian and Indonesian households pay and make money transfers
Payments are the glue of the economic system, and any inefficiency there ripples through the rest of the economy. Yet despite the fact that digital payments and remittances are critical for the poor to be able to access markets and formal financial services, there is very little data collected on the development of the payment market. But now, new research from South Asia and Indonesia is helping to shine a light on the subject.
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- Education
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China eyes health research cooperation with Africa
China plans to improve the health services it provides in Africa and expand its medical aid there, according to the International Cooperation unit at China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Working on Tibet’s Future, From India
In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of computers as the summer monsoon rains fall outside.
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- Education, Technology
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- South Asia
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Students need to be challenged on social innovation, says Microsoft
“Instead of standardized teaching, our schools and our educators need to teach innovation” – Microsoft Malta
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Rwanda: NGO, Micro-Finance Partner to Promote Savings for Education
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES, an international non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Duterimbere IMF, a local Micro-finance institution, has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging residents, especially parents, to save part of their income to educate their children.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Literacy Bridge Uses Talking Books to Spread the Word in Ghana
On a warm spring evening in 2006, software consultant Cliff Schmidt decided to take a walk near the hotel where he was staying for a conference in Atlanta, not yet knowing that what he would stumble upon would alter his life's path.
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- Education, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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