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USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar
Administrator Rajiv Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve health in India.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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The End of the ‘Developing World’
BILL GATES, in his foundation’s annual letter, declared that “the terms ‘developing countries’ and ‘developed countries’ have outlived their usefulness.” He’s right. If we want to understand the modern global economy, we need a better vocabulary. Mr. Gates was making a point about improvements in income and gross domestic product; unfortunately, these formal measures generate categories that tend to obscure obvious distinctions. Only when employing a crude “development” binary could anyone lump Mozambique and Mexico together.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian drug firms may lose out as US pharma supply chain consolidates
Consolidation in the pharmaceuticals supply chain in the US will weigh on the bargaining power of Indian drug firms in that market, top Indian players apprehend. A spate of acquisitions and joint ventures — 16 in 2012 and 10 in 2013 — has resulted in fewer suppliers of prescription drugs, which might work against the interests of Indian firms.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains
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South Africa: Brics Countries Urged to Focus On Issues of Gender Equality
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has urged officials and experts from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), attending the Inaugural BRICS seminar on population matters, to give special attention to exchanging ideas on advancing both gender and reproductive health rights.
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- Education, Health Care
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NUHM launched in Maharashtra, will help 2 crore slum dwellers
The state government announced the launch of the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) on Sunday to focus on the healthcare needs of 2 crore slum dwellers living in 95 districts. The NUHM launch follows the flagging off of the dial 108 for a free ambulance scheme on March 1.
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- Education, Health Care
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Qualcomm, Vecna Cares, Etisalat, to Promote Maternal, Child Health
Qualcomm Incorporated has announced its partnership with other operators to improve maternal and child health. They include Vecna Cares Charitable Trust, the nonprofit arm of Vecna Technologies; InStrat Global Health Solutions, a turnkey health care solutions provider; Etisalat Nigeria; Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA); and Evidence for Action.
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- Health Care
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What if America’s unbanked had mobile wallets?
Delivering financial services to the world's unbanked masses is not a topic that usually includes a developed economy like the United States. That's because Africa is the global leader in this area. Its mobile network operators are boosting their bottom lines and raising standards of living by offering mobile wallets to the unbanked -- making it possible to conduct a variety of transactions from person-to-person money transfers to bill payments and point-of-sale purchases.
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Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe moves to end “mobile war” between telecommunications players
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed mobile payment system operators that want to enter into exclusive arrangements with agents to seek permission as the central bank moves to end the “mobile war” between telecommunications players.
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