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OPINION: Financial Inclusion in India – Easier Said Than Done
Given the numerous players and rapid churn in financial inclusion technologies, regulators face a challenge
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- South Asia
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A Q&A with Audrey Choi, CEO, Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing
If you think that sustainable investing requires a trade-off around performance, Morgan Stanley's Audrey Choi wants to change your mind.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Financial Professionals Offering Fossil-Fuel-Free Portfolios Nearly Doubled From 2013 To 2015
The number of investment professionals in the U.S. offering fossil fuel-free portfolios to investors nearly doubled—jumping from 22 percent to 42 percent of those polled—from 2013 to 2015.
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Silicon Valley couple’s $25 million donation to Santa Clara University aimed at social entrepreneurs
Jeff Miller and his wife are donating $25 million to Santa Clara University and the now renamed Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship that has created a unique, good works program championed by the couple. It is one of the largest gifts in school history.
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India explores ‘heat-proof’ vaccines to stop vital medicines going to waste
As India is witnessing wastage of at least 50 per cent of vaccines stocked by various healthcare agencies owing to heat exposure, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSO) has decided to explore the idea of developing thermostable vaccines.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines, waste
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Public health: Behind a vaccine
In August 2014, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) called global-health specialist Adrian Hill, who is the director of a non-profit vaccine-research centre. They had an urgent question: how soon could the centre launch a clinical trial for an Ebola vaccine? ... Within a month of the phone call, the institute had launched an Ebola-research initiative.
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Price capping takes sheen off condom sales following government decision
It's the condom makers turn to seek protection as sales of the male contraceptive have plunged drastically following a government decision to dub it an essential drug and cap its price more than a year ago.
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India Cancels Licenses of Nearly 9,000 Charities Over Foreign Funds
India has cancelled the registration of nearly 9,000 charities for failing to declare details of donations from abroad, as New Delhi tightens surveillance on foreign-funded non-governmental organisations in the country.
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- South Asia
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- philanthropy
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