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Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations
The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How Misinformed Ideas About Profit Are Holding Back The World’s Poor
Is it taking advantage of poor people to try to make money from them? And do they even have any money to give?
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Venture Capital Trust Fund signs MoU with GIMPA to establish Centre
Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF) signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the Ghana Institute for Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) to establish a Centre for Impact Investing in the country.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Africa, the best ‘charity’ is aid for business
The traditional approach to solving Africa’s problems has been to rely on charity and aid – free money, more or less. And while charity has done much good for millions across the continent in terms of food security, health care, emergency response, and education, its chief weakness is that its results have not proven sustainable. Africa finds itself continually going back to donors simply to maintain the status quo. What the continent really needs is to create the environment – political, economic, and social – to achieve self-sufficiency.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Preventing Drug Shortages With Cell Phones in Malawi
Eighty percent of the 13 million Malawians live in rural areas, making delivering health services challenging, especially in remote parts with no roads.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Godrej Appliances to enter new categories for rural consumers
Growing rural demand is making Godrej Appliances target consumers at the bottom of the pyramid with new products pegged below Rs 3,000.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Now, a regulatory body to set norms for impact investment
In order to avoid excesses that derailed the Indian microfinance industry three years ago, nine entities doing 'impact investing' have come together.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Where Private School Is Not a Privilege
In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send their children to private school.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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