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Five Minutes With Entrepreneur Christine Souffrant, Founder And CEO, Vendedy
“Instead of creating another charity company or e-commerce websitewith static images of products that are only bought during [the] holidays,” Christine Souffrant was keen on thinking differently when creating her social enterprise, Vendedy. The founder and CEO says that the core motivation behind her startup, which connects street sellers with consumers, was to try and meet the challenge of creating a stable consumer base for those forced to turn to touristic, traffic-heavy streets to sell their wares in cities around the world that are rife with economic challenges.
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Report: Nigerian President Planning to Offer Government Microloans to 1 Million Artisans, Market Women
More details are emerging about the social protection programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, including a scheme to grant soft loans to about one million artisans and market women in the proposed 2016 budget.
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Israel to Provide India With Better, Cheaper Health Care
Already close collaborators in areas like defense and agritech, Israel and India will soon be working together on health technologies, through the good offices of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.
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IBM Signs $38 Million Deal for ATM Infrastructure Management in India
IBM has signed a Rs 260 crore deal with BTI Payments for ATM infrastructure management, as it focuses on deepening its hold on the financial services sector in India.
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Droit Health’s Pilot Clinic at Lakkur
Bangalore based start-up, Droit Health has piloted world’s first “technology enabled socionomic healthcare delivery modelâ€. “Droit Health†means “The Right to Healthâ€, and the start-up is focused on navigating the needy and less fortunate through socio-economic disparities hindering accessing quality health care. The company has rolled out a novel business model by co-launching urgent care clinics, personalized pharmacy, telemedicine at one side and microbanking, mobile wallets and microinsurance at the other side.
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Kanpur Startup HelpUsGreen Wins Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2015-16
Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2015-16, a joint initiative of the Tata group and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C), received 210 impact proposals from aspiring early-stage social entrepreneurs.
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62 People Own the Same as Half the World, Reveals Oxfam Davos Report
The Oxfam report An Economy for the 1%, shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world’s population has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010, a drop of 41 percent. This has occurred despite the global population increasing by around 400 million people during that period. Meanwhile, the wealth of the richest 62 has increased by more than half a trillion dollars to $1.76tr. The report also shows how women are disproportionately affected by inequality – of the current ‘62’, 53 are men and just nine are women.
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‘Sustainable Investing’ Goes Mainstream
The year 2015 might well have been when sustainable investing became sustainable.
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