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New Initiative Encouraging Indian Diaspora to Invest Launched
A new investment initiative, announced by President Barack Obama during his New Delhi visit early this year, that makes it easier for the Indian diaspora to invest in small and medium businesses in India has been launched here.
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Economics Nobel Winner Strong Critic of India’s Poverty Line
Angus Deaton, the Scottish-American Princeton professor who won the Economics Nobel on Monday "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", has a strong India connect with several of his academic papers and articles focused on the country and based on data collected here. Deaton (69) has worked with Jean Dreze of Delhi School of Economics, Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Jishnu Das of World Bank on areas like poverty, healthcare, nutrition, etc. Even his homepage on Princeton website lists 'Poverty in the world and in India' as one of the Nobel winner's main areas of research.
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National Payments System in the Works in the Philippines
The framework for the envisioned national retail payments system (NRPS) could be ready by next month, a BancNet official said, in a bid to roll out the system by next year as the financial industry aims to have an integrated cashless network in the next three to five years.
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Indian Banks’ Association Wants to Be Made Party in Supreme Court Challenge to Aadhaar Validity
To protect the interests of the banking industry, Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking to be made a party in a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Aadhaar card.
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Paga Raises Additional $13M: Targets Dominance of Nigeria’s Mobile Money Market
Nigeria’s leading mobile payment company, Paga, has announced the completion of a $13m Series B financing led by Adlevo Capital which is expected to expand its lead position in Nigeria’s mobile payments sector.
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Biotech Firm Xenex Taking Its Germ-Zapping Robots to Africa
Xenex Disinfection Services, a San Antonio-based developer of robotic devices used to disinfect hospital facilities and eradicate often deadly health care infections, is expanding its product reach internationally. Xenex has struck a deal with Serenus Biotherapeutics, which is introducing the local biotech company’s pulsed xenon, ultraviolet room disinfection system to a number of African nations, including Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
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1 Stop Aksh Launches e-Health Service “Ask a Doctor” at e-Mitra Kiosks in Rajasthan
1 Stop Aksh, the e-governance arm of Aksh Optifibre Limited [BSE: 532351 | NSE: AKSHOPTFBR] and e-Mitra, a leading government initiative in Rajasthan for connecting villages through IT infrastructure, today announced that it has launched its first e-Health service at its kiosks where a citizen can ask a doctor about his or her health issues.
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GE’s Blueprint for Big Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
Global industrial conglomerate General Electric is no stranger to innovation — the company has pioneered many of the transformative technologies of the past 100 years. So it may be well-suited for a new shift that is underway, one in which businesses will align their operations with the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals.
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