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Interest-free Microfinance Hope for Poor Muslims
Making headlines in the recent past for crushing interest rates claiming lives of debtors, microfinance is now being offered with a more humane approach. The Human Welfare Foundation will now offer loans in the form of interest-free microfinance to the poor across the country including Hyderabad, said vice president of Jamat-e-Islami Hind Prof K A Siddique Hassan here on Saturday.
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- South Asia
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The Time to Empower Women is Now
The world celebrates the 101st International Women’s Day on March 8. But how have women’s empowerment and gender equality improved over the past years? Certainly, there have been advancements. The United States, for instance, has been able to incorporate gender issues in its first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, and its Feed the Future and Global Health Initiative foreign aid programs.
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B Lab Releases First ‘Best for the World’ List of Businesses Creating Most Overall Positive Social and Environmental Impact
'Best for the World' businesses score 50% higher than nearly 2,000 other sustainable businesses in most comprehensive assessment of overall corporate impact
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- Impact Assessment
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Cash Transfers Do Not Address the Underlying Causes of Women’s Poverty
Women need more than just small amounts of cash to escape poverty – the limited 'empowerment' of income support should be coupled with training and employment
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- Impact Assessment
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A Fall to Cheer
For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere
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- Impact Assessment
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Why the Global Economy Needs Businesses to Invest in Women
Businesses are starting to understand what development experts have long known: investing in women pays dividends. Women are more likely than men to put their income back into their communities, driving illiteracy and mortality rates down and GDP up.
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UN Meets Millennium Development Goal on Drinking Water
The Millennium Development Goal for access to clean water has been reached, ahead of the target date of 2015.
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- Agriculture, Impact Assessment
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Now for some good news:Two books argue that the future is brighter than we think
The lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a small device with a huge potential. It can run dozens of diagnostic tests on human DNA in a few minutes. Give the device a gob of spit or a drop of blood and it will tell you whether or not you are sick without any need to send your DNA to a laboratory. In poor countries LOCs could offer diagnostics to millions who lack access to expensive laboratories. In the rich world they may curb rising medical costs.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- public health
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