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Chinese microcredit firms lend 600 bln yuan
BEIJING, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese microcredit companies reported 600 billion yuan (96.31 billion U.S. dollars) in outstanding loans by the end of last year, up 52 percent year on year, an association head said Tuesday.
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Inequality and accountability key to post-2015 development, report says
Save the Children outlines its proposals for the development agenda after the millennium development goals expire in 2015
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- Environment
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New Partnership to Develop Business Models for Providing Basic Services to the BoP in Latin America
IDB’s MIF, OMJ to provide grants and technical assistance for businesses seeking to provide health care, education, energy and water for poor and low-income communities
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GravityLight: the low-cost lamp powered by sand and gravity
Two London designers have developed a gravity-powered lamp that could sell for as little as £3, bringing light to remote regions in developing countries
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- Energy, Technology
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- renewable energy
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
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Prices double as private vaccines flood market
NEW DELHI: The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) seems to have slipped almost entirely into the grip of the private sector as the government's vaccine institutes that were reopened in February 2010 after being shut down two years ago are yet to contribute in any significant way. In the process, the cost of most vaccines has more than doubled since 2006-07.
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NIC to launch Rs 5,000 cr VC fund for innovation: Pitroda
The fund will support enterprises which drive change at the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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