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UST Global unveils unique telemedicine mobile app, in collaboration with Nanavati Hospital
Kerala’s largest IT employer UST Global, Monday, announced the release of an advanced telemedicine application, developed in collaboration with Mumbai-based Balabhai Nanavati Hospital’s telemedicine centre and BlackBerry India.
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The future of healthcare: live-saving innovations for the bottom billion
From India to Mexico, meet the innovators in open-heart surgery and palliative care developing unconventional health solutions
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Unilever Pledges to Help 25 Million People Gain Improved Access to Toilets
Today, at the Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park, Unilever is announcing a commitment to help 25 million people gain improved access to toilets by 2020.
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Indian government to offer life insurance with new bank accounts through financial inclusion scheme
The government will shortly announce the life insurance cover to be provided to the new bank accounts being opened under the Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana, a top finance ministry official said today.
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Microfinance Struggling to find its feet in Middle East
Microfinance has blossomed in recent years, helping fill a funding need for businesses too tiny and risky for traditional banks. Curiously perhaps, while microfinance has been a big hit across parts of Asia and South America, its start in the Middle East and North Africa hasn’t been as auspicious.
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- North Africa & Near East
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PRESS RELEASE: TriLinc Global Impact Fund Makes Impact Investments in Kenya, South Africa and Argentina
TriLinc Global Impact Fund announced today that it has approved a total of $9.9 million in trade finance facilities to a Kenyan, a South African and an Argentine company, bringing total financing commitments as of September 29, 2014 to $38.1 million for business expansion and socioeconomic development through its holdings in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia
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Green Divestment Movement Still in Its Infancy Despite Rockefeller Coup
In announcing last week that it would purge its portfolio of fossil fuel investments, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund did more than make a financial decision; it joined a movement.
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How Agent Orange helped spawn the Socially Responsible Investing movement
Sustainable, socially responsible mutual funds would not exist without agent orange.
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- Agriculture
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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