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As a rising global power, what is India’s vision for the world?
Markets are converging across the Eurasian landmass as well as facilitating the geo-economic “union” of the Indian and Pacific oceans. This has resulted in new integrative dynamics; as cultures, markets and communities aspire for development and new opportunities.
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- South Asia
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Study shows forest conservation is a powerful tool to improve nutrition in developing nations
More than two billion people in the developing world suffer from a lack of micronutrients—like vitamin A, sodium, iron and calcium. The result for children can be brain damage, stunted growth, and even death.
In response, food and farming programs have begun to consider how to do more than just increase production of staple crops, like rice and corn, to fight malnutrition.- Categories
- Agriculture, Environment
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Meet The Finalists Of The Social Entrepreneurship Competition With A $1 Million Prize
From food safety to education, the Hult Prize by Hult International Business School has generated 200,000 startup ideas to solve today's most pressing social issues.
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- Uncategorized
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- startups
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How Dr. Bronner’s is cleaning up its agricultural supply chain
Since 2006, Dr. Bronner’s has built five vertically integrated commercial FTO supply projects comprising of locally managed smallholder farms in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Samoa and India, growing coconuts, palm oils and mint oils.
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- Agriculture
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- supply chains
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China’s payments giant is ready to boost financial inclusion in Africa
The cooperation, announced in Addis Ababa last week, is pegged to both the 2030 global sustainable development goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2060, which seeks to end poverty and improve lives through economic, social, and technological progress.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Transitioning from least developed country status: are countries better off?
Currently, 14 out of 53 members of the Commonwealth are classified as LDCs and the number is likely to reduce as Bangladesh, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu transition from LDC status by 2021.
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New partnership to provide vaccine access to 8 million people in Liberia, Uganda and Kenya
The health workers will be equipped with smartphones that can capture the immunisation status of every child in real time with a time-stamped GPS identifier, send automated vaccination reminders by SMS and use real-time data to help pinpoint and close immunisation gaps.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Aims For The World’s Biggest Health Care Overhaul
In his annual Independence Day speech on Wednesday, Narendra Modi is expected to unveil the biggest government health care program in the world. The plan is to roll it out by the end of the year – ahead of elections expected early in 2019.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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