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4 Ways for the Private Sector to Support Women’s Health
Reflecting on what is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, I am struck by how much work is needed to secure the place of reproductive health in discussions on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda to Produce Mosquito Bed Nets
Six companies, including some from Rwanda, have expressed interest in setting up a plant to produce medicated mosquito bed nets to be distributed in the country, a senior official in the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MINICOM) has said.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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For Struggling Pharma Market, Vaccines Offer Path to Revenue
The revenue growth opportunity in vaccines looks far more promising when compared to the overall market for pharmaceuticals. Revenues earned by vaccines manufacturers worldwide reached $27.6 billion in 2015 according to Kalorama Information, up 11% from $24.7 billion in 2014, as sales in all segments expanded (Figure 1). This is, by Kalorama’s estimate, at least five to ten times the revenue growth rate of the overall pharmaceutical market in recent years. The world vaccines market is predicted to increase at a compound annual rate of 7.6% during 2013–2022, reaching $45.1 billion in 2022 as new product introductions continue and usage of current products expands further.
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Viewpoint: Unified Payment Interface Will Be the Next Big Thing in Mobile Banking in India
Mobile payments just got a leg-up, thanks to the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), probably the only app of its kind in the world. Virtual wallet services have been around for a while now. UPI goes a step further and allows you to make payments by simply entering the payee's virtual ID on your smartphone and feeding the PIN the app requests. The money is debited directly from your account and transferred to the payee in a matter of minutes, without you having to provide either your bank details or the payee's bank IFSC code. In a few simple steps you can make transactions worth up to a lakh. The app on your phone need not be of the bank you hold your account in, but of any bank whose user experience you prefer. The same goes for the payee. But the transactions still take place between the underlying banks, without you even knowing about it. No need to worry about your credit card details being compromised.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Can Cash Lead the Revolution That the Humanitarian System So Badly Needs?
Recently, in a Liberian refugee camp, I met Christelle, a young mother who was recovering from the violence and insecurity in her home country of Côte d'Ivoire. In our discussions, she didn`t want to talk about her needs for shelter, psychosocial support, or the any of the humanitarian challenges I had come prepared to discuss. Instead, Christelle spoke of the unfamiliar food she had been given during an aid distribution, and the lack of options to feed her children. “My children are getting sick. I don’t know how to cook this, I need rice - please,” she said.
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Public-Private Deal Rejuvenates Healthcare in Rajasthan – At a Cost
In the women’s ward, two newborns are sleeping beside their mothers, one of whom is happy because hers is a boy. The other is unhappy because her child is a girl, and her sixth daughter.
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- South Asia
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John Edwardson Gives $5 Million to Enhance Chicago Booth’s Social Entrepreneurship Program
University of Chicago Trustee and Chicago Booth alumnus John Edwardson has given an additional $5 million gift to his alma mater to support and expand its program for social entrepreneurs, which is part of Chicago Booth’s Social Enterprise Initiative. The newly established program will be called the Edwardson Social Entrepreneurship Program.
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World Bank Launches $500 Million Insurance Fund to Fight Pandemics
The World Bank on Saturday said it was launching a $500 million, fast-disbursing insurance fund to combat deadly pandemics in poor countries, creating the world's first insurance market for pandemic risk.
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