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Crowdfunding Could Change Chinese Politics
Crowdfunding, which allows web users to contribute small sums of money to fund collective projects like concerts and films, is taking off in China — and just how far it will go is more than a business question. By allowing netizens to vote with their renminbi, online crowdfunding could become an economic activity with political effects, bringing closer two separate spheres that rarely overlap in China. As a result, in the future, crowdfunding platforms could do more than make music; they may also help bring political changes to the country.
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Crowdfunding Platform Aims to Break Cycle of Poverty for Adolescent Girls
A new social enterprise is setting its sights on breaking the cycle of poverty for girls in the developing world, by giving them the opportunity to go to high school through the helping hand of crowdfunding.
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Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in South Africa
THE Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) on Tuesday announced two new partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at finding new tools to fight HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
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Kenya gets boost in the the fight against non-communicable diseases
The fight against non-communicable diseases in Kenya is set to go a notch higher with the decision by the Novartis Pharma of Switzerland to diversify its drug products portfolio n the Kenyan market.
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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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Healthcare tech is hot for venture capitalists
From wearables like wristbands that keep track of your physical activity to wireless weighing machines that help you track your weight fluctuations, technology is getting into healthcare with an eye firmly on the consumer.
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The challenges of setting up a social investment fund
Today Nesta launch their first impact investment funds. Its director of impact investments outlines the challenges they faced.
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