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Microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities
At a recently-held seminar organised by the Pathfinder Foundation in Colombo, a paper and three presentations were publicised under the theme ‘microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities’.
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- South Asia
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Opinion : Why Bitcoin Matters
A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers
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- digital payments
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Press Release : Case Foundation Commits $100,000 to Georgetown Global Social Enterprise Initiative
Grant to Support Impact Investing Initiatives, Including Policy Coordination with the Social Impact Investment Task Force
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Three Myths on the World’s Poor
Three Myths on the World's PoorBill and Melinda Gates call foreign aid a phenomenal investment that's transforming the world.
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Lloyds Bank encourages entrepreneurs to start a social enterprise
Lloyds Bank has partnered with the School for Social Entrepreneurs to re-launch its social initiative offering entrepreneurs funding and mentoring in order to start and develop a charity.
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‘Nation’s economic situation influences health of people’
Academique, an inter-disciplinary group in the DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) held a discussion on 'Social determinants of health' in the 275th session on Sunday.
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Why city life is unhealthy
The rapid increase in the number of urban inhabitants will be among the most important global health issues of the 21st century.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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No pneumonia vaccines for Kampala
In an effort to protect infants from Pneumonia, the ministry of Health is rolling out administration of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), starting this week.
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