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Good for health, good for business
Why would a global corporation reinvest 20 percent of its profits from developing countries back into training health workers? It’s simple. Health workers are the driver of health systems.
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Mumbai’s dream of becoming an international financial center may soon be a reality
Other centres in Asia may be losing their shine—Dubai is surrounded by geopolitical chaos and Singapore is apparently turning less attractive to expatriate workers due to slowing economic growth—marking an opportunity for Mumbai to aspire to that regional position.
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PRESS RELEASE: Impact Accelerator launched in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Impact Investment Exchange Asia has launched its first Impact Accelerator program in the Philippines, an intensive in-country program designed to accelerate early-stage social enterprises that have high potentials to create positive social and environmental impact at scale.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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Equity says 200,000 have signed up for its mobile money platform in Kenya
EQUITY Bank yesterday said it has “quietly” registered over 200,000 customers on its mobile money transfer platform, Equitel, in the ongoing rollout.
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This backpack designed for poor kids does so much more than carry books
South Africans Thato Kgatlhanye and Rea Ngwane are co-founders of the business Rethaka. Their brand of Repurposed Schoolbags are made from recycled and reinforced plastic shopping bags. Recipients are all poor. But it’s so much more than a bag. Because the kids often live in shacks and remote areas with no electricity, Repurposed Schoolbags are built with some other smart features. On the outside of the flap is a pocket for a solar panel, which charges on the long walk to and from school.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indore: Approval for mobile app to curb dengue spread hangs fire
Even as dengue cases rise, government approval for a mobile app that could prevent the disease from spreading by speeding up monitoring and intervention is hanging fire.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Backed by Gates, Affinivax Ramps up Velcro-like Vaccine Tech
A new startup with backing by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Affinivax claims it’s created a vaccine to protect against all 90 strains of pneumococcal bacteria. Now comes the hard part: scaling up, proving it in clinical trials, and making a successful business out of it.
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Vaccine group says 5 million-plus lives can be saved over next few years in poor countries
GAVI Alliance believes its five-year plan to vaccinate another 300 million children worldwide will save at least 5 million lives. It will also save billions of dollars now lost to treatment of the preventable illnesses and other costs, like parents' lost wages, members of the alliance said.
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