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Indian PM asks banks to make financial inclusion a national priority
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked banks to make the opening of bank accounts in 70 million households this year a national priority.
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5 Ways To Ensure Your Money Doesn’t Contradict Your Social Values
It is possible to redirect your money’s social and environmental ties, even if a lack of understanding too often obscures that fact.
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Male Rickshaw Drivers Playing Key Role In Maternal Health Campaign In India
As the autorickshaws begin lining up inside the compound at 7 a.m., Vijaylakmi Sahu knows she has just 30 minutes to finish her work. Over the next half hour, Sahu works with clockwork precision. She ensures that the temperatures of the vaccines for pregnant women and children are checked before they are packed under her supervision in cold boxes. After that, three to five autorickshaws, known as the Immunization Express, head off to the villages where mothers, children and pregnant women await them.
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‘Nigerian startups will revolutionalise healthcare delivery’
Q: I understand that Integrated Medics helps improve health care delivery. Specifically, how do you achieve this?A; We achieve this through automation of all the process in the hospital: from record office to front desk, from consulting to admission; from store to pharmacy and from NHIS desk to payment desk. Basically, by fast-tracking the healthcare delivery system.
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The Economic Case for Wiping Out Ebola
On Aug. 22, the World Health Organization announced a draft strategy to combat the West African Ebola outbreak over the next six to nine months. That’s a sign that the global health body isn’t optimistic about a rapid end to an epidemic that has killed around 1,300 people so far. An extended outbreak of such a feared disease would have mounting economic costs.
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Bain Capital Buys into Toms Shoes’ Social Enterprise Model
Toms is a well known socially responsible business, a shoe manufacturer that donates a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair it sells. This business model has attracted an unusual investor: Bain Capital.
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America’s First Billion-Dollar Social Enterprise?
It's not just the fact that TOMS received an investment from Mitt Romney's Bain Capital that was so important - it's the fact that Bain's investment now values TOMS, a social enterprise, at $625 million dollars.
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