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USAID chief meets corporate leaders at the White House
U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah met corporate leaders — including the CEOs of Wal-Mart, Mike Duke: Unilever, Paul Polman; and Nestlé, Paul Bulcke — at the White House on Wednesday to discuss supply chain management within the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020.
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Innovation is key to affordable healthcare in India
The Asian Heart Institute in Bandra played host to Prof Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad, also executive vice chair National Innovation Council, a man who by his own admission has walked over 6,000 km across the country in search of innovative ideas.
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- Health Care
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Coffee shops, farmers and a banker team up to save Latin American coffee
Coffee trees in Central and South America are in danger. They have always been vulnerable to a disease called leaf rust, or la roya in Spanish. But now a warmer, wetter climate is creating the worst outbreak in a generation.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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- impact investing
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South Africa: Rural Health – Grossly Unequal but Some Hope
While there are significant unmet health needs in many parts of South Africa, they are particularly acute in historically disadvantaged rural areas.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MBA grads find way to serve and thrive
As a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, Siiri Morley watched development workers train women to make crafts without much thought to whether their products would actually sell. Unsold crafts piled up until these businesses and programs inevitably failed, leaving the women without an income, marketable skills, or hope of rising from poverty. This experience taught Morley that even the best-intentioned social programs would not work unless they could operate in the black by adhering to established business practices such as identifying markets for goods and services. Today, with an MBA in hand, she is one of three founders of a successful Boston firm that sells candles made in developing nations and provides a steady income to the women who make them.
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- Education
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Children in Philippines receive vaccines against polio, measles
More than 30,000 children are being targeted as part of a vaccination campaign in Tacloban, Philippines, the city hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan, the World Health Organization recently announced.
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- Health Care
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In Africa, Climate Change Wages War on Bodies, not Just Lands
While the African Union concentrates on strategies to mitigate the devastating financial effects climate change is having on Africans, I worry instead about its impact on our bodies.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a money-tracking tool is helping businesses grow in India
While growing up in northern India, Shivani Siroya says she encountered entrepreneurs on a regular basis. Now, she's helping them track their finances in order to boost their businesses.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia