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India takes action on spurious and sub-standard drugs
An American pharmacist and an Indian pharmacologist charged with smuggling four million fake pharmaceuticals into the country earlier this month may have been the last straw for the Indian government battling counterfeit drugs.
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Bangladesh installs 3 million residential solar systems
Bangladesh’s Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Idcol) last week marked the installation of 3 million residential solar systems in the country.According to Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, the 3 million systems installed under the Idcol program in off-grid areas have a combined capacity of 135 MW.
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- South Asia
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Mahindra Comviva builds interoperability between Tanzanian telcos for mobile money exchange
Mahindra Comviva has announced that it has enabled the world’s first domestic interoperable mobile financial service between Airtel Money and Tigo Pesa in Tanzania.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Start a Business – Not a Social Enterprise
If do-gooder entrepreneurs and innovators aim to have a lasting impact, they should consider skipping over the strict "social" in social enterprise.
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OPINION: Financial inclusion in India needs another model
Priority sector targets are met by means fair and foul. Competition in providing credit to the unbanked will work better
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U.S. Lags Behind G-7 in Bank Accounts as Poor Can’t Build Assets
The world’s largest economy lags behind other developed nations in banking participation.
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Credit for all: Increasing women’s access to finance
Women’s need for financial services may actually exceed that of men because they tend to live longer, have lower levels of formal employment, own fewer assets, and have less control over household finances.
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Pre-plan for ebola-style crises
African operators have been advised to pre-plan for a crisis such as the one faced by West African countries in the form of the ebola outbreak, by ensuring people are signed up to information dissemination services in advance.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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