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What Do You Have in Common with a Low-Income Indian Mother? More Than You Think
Unfortunately, people are not rational actors; we are trained creatures of habit, molded and formed by our culture and personal experiences.
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Growth and Poverty
The ten years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gave the Philippines a much faster economic growth at around 4.8 percent annually. The only decade-long gross domestic product (GDP) growth higher than this was recorded in the 1950s.
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- Asia Pacific
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India’s Budget Targets Women
At a time when India’s commitment to women’s rights is under scrutiny, the government’s annual budget released Thursday proposed a number of measures for women, including increased spending to improve their safety and a bank only for women.
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- South Asia
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India Bends Curve on Child Health
India is making positive strides in reducing child mortality through new policies and ambitious programs, but preventing the deaths of millions of children remains one of the country’s greatest challenges.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship in B-Schools in Three Charts
Twenty years ago, on two different business school campuses a continent away, the seeds of social entrepreneurship were planted.
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TriLinc Global Launches $1.5 Billion Impact Investment Fund
TriLinc Global Impact Fund ("TriLinc") announced today that its registration statement pertaining to its public offering of up to $1.5 billion in units of limited liability company interest was declared effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs
GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn’t act.
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- Health Care
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- public health