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Visualizing stagnation: Funding stalled for global health
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending trends lately the story is one of stagnation, or even decline.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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In Global Fight Against HIV, China’s Circumcision Device Makes the Cut
China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Aavishkaar raises $75 million for foreign investments
Aavishkaar, India's biggest social entrepreneurship focused venture capital fund, will be investing about Rs 500 crore ($75 million) in start-ups from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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$100 Million for Social Startups in Australia
Socially and environmentally conscious startups are set to benefit from the creation of the new $100 million Impact Investment Funds - said to be one of Australia’s biggest.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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U.S. startup combines Bitcoin with Islamic microfinance in Indonesia
Founded in San Francisco and recently moved to Jakarta, a financial startup called Blossom aims at nothing less than shaking up the microfinance sector in Indonesia.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Nine mobile money trends: Consumers embrace ecommerce and banking via mobile
A new report reveals nine significant mobile money trends and explores how they are stimulating growth across the expanded mobile ecosystem.
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- Education
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- mobile finance, research
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Remedy for a Trillion Dollar Problem?
Africa is bleeding. But it’s not a physical wound, it’s a financial one, and it’s allowing more to leave in illicit flows — money that is illegally transferred, earned or utilized — than the amount received in development aid. Though the loss is coming out of Africa and other developing regions, the Band-Aid that could stop the bleeding is in the hands of a small group of rich countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Surgical Intervention: How to Improve Access to Surgical Care in the Developing World
Access to surgical and anaesthetic care is an essential, but often forgotten, component of health care in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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