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Jagirti Yatra – annual train journey across India for social entrepreneurs
On December 24th another departure of Jagirti Yatra, which means “journey of awakening” in Hindi, took place. Since its founding in 2008, the railway odyssey has spawned more than 200 social enterprises.
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Bank Alfalah introduces mobile money service in Pakistan
Pakistani Bank Alfalah has teamed up with operator Warid Telecom to launch a mobile money service. The service, Mobile Paisa, will initially enable users to make utility bill payments and secure money transfers across Pakistan.
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Opinion : Women and the poor are invisible in the Crisil index of financial inclusion in India
Indices such as these are designed to help policymakers and service providers improve financial inclusion, which is often defined as reaching the "unreached". But if the aim is to reach the poor and to reach women, then the figures should give us a break-up by gender
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Opinion : ‘FDI in micro finance will help Muslims’ in India
Studies show that hundreds of Women Self Help Groups and co-operative societies created at Muslim-populated areas were denied recognition as the members were only Muslims.
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Opinion : The economics of microcredit
The problem of adverse selection in a credit market is used to describe a situation where the lender involved in a transaction cannot observe the type or quality of goods or the production of the borrower.
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The emerging world’s vaccine pioneers by Bill Gates
"As I look ahead to 2014, I am more optimistic than ever about the progress that we can make using the power of vaccines"
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Most effective way to reduce smoking? Increase price of cigarettes, study says
That is the conclusion of a new study that calls for a tripling of tobacco taxes and a doubling of the price of a pack of cigarettes in much of the world.
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Kenya’s Health Funding Is Still Not Enough
In Kenya, the allocation of total government expenditure to health has been below 10 per cent since 2002.
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