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OPINION: Grand Convergence in Global Health is Realizable
What it will take is a co-ordinated, future-oriented investment strategy.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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7 Incredible Health Tech Innovations Changing the Way South Africans Live
Nowhere is the need for more efficient, more accessible and generally more powerful tools as great as it is in Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance Faces Uncertainty in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh government should reevaluate its pursuit to regulate and nationalize the operations of the Grameen Bank.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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In Global Health, Abortion Bears the Scarlet A
At the Kamazu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, Dr. Grace Chiudzu, the head of the maternity ward, ticks off the most common issues her patients face: “One is bleeding, second is infections, third is abortion complications.”
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- Health Care
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Can Mr. Poo stop public defecation in India?
India has an unlikely new public health hero: a giant, anthropomorphic stool that chases people to squat in toilets.
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- Health Care
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Can a tool for doctors ‘fix’ evidence-based foreign aid?
As development institutions like the World Bank look for ways to make their projects and interventions more evidence-based, development practitioners have run into a problem faced by doctors a generation ago.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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10 technologies for the bottom of the pyramid
The bottom of the financial pyramid, a term reportedly coined by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, refers to the world's lowest income-level group, one that spans more than 4 billion people worldwide.
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- Technology
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“Correlation is not causation”: Roodman takes issue with World Bank study
The issue is standard. Correlation is not causation. The Economist makes a strikingly confident statement about how one thing affects another. The problem is that in families and villages, everything affects everything. Taking more microloans can make people wealthier or poorer. Being wealthier or poorer can make people take more microloans. The arrows go in circles. Statistics can measure correlations. How do we make the leap to causation?
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- Education, Impact Assessment