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Press Release: Announcing a New Investment – KZ Noir
KZ Noir exports fully and semi washed green coffee and has two roasted coffee brands.
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- Agriculture
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Pearson announces joint venture secondary schooling investment with Ayala in the Philippines
Pearson is the world's leading learning company.
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- Education
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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GE Healthcare & IIT Madras ink 3-year R&D pact to accelerate innovation for a healthier India
GE Healthcare, the US$ 18 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company and Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a multi-disciplinary R&D centre of IIT Chennai have entered into a three-year collaborative research and development agreement for innovating a range of disruptive and affordable healthcare solutions.
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- Education, Health Care
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USAID, General Electric to finance health programme in Kenya
USAID, GE partner with Kenyan bank to finance health programme - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and General Electric (GE), in conjunction with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Tuesday announced a new partnership that will make up to US$ 10 million in local financing available to small- and medium-enterprises in the country.
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- Health Care
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Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are Needed
Global health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis.
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- Education, Health Care
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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Payment banks could promote financial inclusion in India
Payment banks will be a bank in every respect except that it can’t lend, thus removing the risk of leverage.
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- Uncategorized
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‘Micro-insurance Impacts Significantly on Social Indices’
The Micro-insurance Network, the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) micro-insurance innovation facility, has said that micro-insurance has impacted positively on the standard of living of low income earners across the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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