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‘Lifestyle diseases more common among poor than rich in India’
The poor in India don’t suffer from fewer “lifestyle diseases” than the rich — they just don’t know it. A new study shows that the actual prevalence of common non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is far higher among the poor than they report, and is as high if not higher among the poor than among the rich.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Imagining a ‘Smart Country’ – Such as Rwanda
Everyone is talking about “smart development” and “smart solutions” – the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to tackle the most pressing development problems such as poverty, access to basic services, and job creation. But if a whole country decided to become “smart” what would that look like to its citizens, government, and private sector?
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is there a role for foreign development assistance in middle income Asia?
Across Asia countries are rapidly transitioning from low to middle income status. This transition is enormously positive, pulling millions of Asians out of poverty, massively increasing levels of education, and creating new opportunities for employment and wealth accumulation. But the ‘miracle’ of Asian growth is deeply unequal, with many in middle-income Asia continuing to experience extreme poverty, and exclusion from the benefits of the thriving regional economy.
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- South Asia
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- governance
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Uganda: Social Business Will Help Defeat Poverty
On July 11, 2013, Sulaiman Madada, the state minister for the Elderly and Disabled, launched the beginning of what might be one of the best things to have happened to Uganda: a social business.
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Scaling social innovation: what is it?
Outsourcing public services may cut costs, but what has it got to do with social innovation and positive social change?
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- Impact Assessment
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Psychiatrists decry mental health care in Africa
The drugs given to many of Africa's psychiatric patients are often administered to keep the patients asleep so the hurried nurses can get some rest, and those who can't sleep may have their hands or feet tied up.Yet these patients may be considered lucky, because across Africa most of those who need psychiatric care don't ever get it.
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Self-Healing Hydrogen Leaf Could Power the World
There are plenty of scientists out there trying to solve our impending energy crisis. Many of their creations never leave the lab. Here's one that is on its way to commercialization — and just fixed one of its biggest problems.
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- Energy
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Abhijit Ray: ‘There is a yawning gap in early stage impact investing in India’
Five days ago, India’s largest angel investing group, the Indian Angel Network, started a fund focused solely on socially relevant enterprises, with its first investment in Gram Vaani, a community radio enterprise based out of Delhi. Last year, about $151 million (about Rs 902 crore) was invested in social ventures across India, marking the rise of serious interest in the space of social investment, both from mainstream and sector investors.
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