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Watch Out, World Bank: Here Comes the BRICS Bank
Leaders of the five BRICS nations plan to create a development bank in a direct challenge to the World Bank that they accuse of Western bias.
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- Impact Assessment
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Gates explores Ghana’s health progress
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sheetal Mehta Walsh, on the Rise of Social Entrepreneurship
Sheetal Mehta Walsh, is the founder of Shanti Life, a unique microfinance platform serving the poor in Gujarat villages and slums so that they can create sustainable businesses.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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New plan to ensure universal health care in Somalia
Every Somali citizen will have access to basic healthcare by 2016 if a new, government-led strategic plan achieves its aims.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The New State Department Office of Global Health Diplomacy: A Second Chance to Get Things Right
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in one of her final acts as secretary, created the Office of Global Health Diplomacy (OGHD) and appointed Dr. Eric Goosby to head the new office.
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- Health Care
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Despite Progress, Immunization of African Children Falling Short
Researchers say that despite progress immunizing African children against disease, vaccination efforts are falling far short of what’s needed.
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- Health Care
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A Plan to Chart Heart Risk in 1 Million Adults in Real Time
Researchers are launching a major study that will marshal the power of smartphones and other personal technologies in an effort to develop new strategies for preventing and managing heart disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Serving the poor, but operating like a business
At a time when public sector resources are limited, and every philanthropic dollar must go further, there is a robust debate in the international development community about how to achieve development goals with less money.
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- Agriculture
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