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Godrej Coming Up with Low-Priced Refrigerator for Poor
BANGALORE: Godrej Appliances Limited, part of the Godrej Group, is coming out with a low-priced refrigerator for the poorer sections of the society, the Group’s top official said. "We are coming (out) with a small refrigerato...
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The Stove That Won?t Kill the World?s Poor
NEARLY half the world’s population relies on crude open-fire stoves. They...
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- Education
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What Do We Owe the Bottom Billion?
Princeton philosopher Peter Singer has been a prominent, often controversial, figure. His most recent book, The Life You Can Save, looks at the responsibilities of individuals for addressing global poverty. Q : You have written that in addition to an obligation to not harm, we also have an obligation to help. Could you explain that? It’s a mistake to think that our obligations are only to do no harm. I use the example of the drowning child in the pond. If ...
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Microfinance Has the Makings of an Industry
Opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid are driving the buzz today. One of the most significant areas in this category in India is Microfinance - both in what it has been able to achieve over the past couple of decades, as well as in its unrealized potential. Besides the scale of business that is possible in microfinance, what is even more exciting is the scale of impact that is possible through microfinance, in enabling other businesses in that segmen...
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Vodafone Launches World?s Cheapest Phone at $15
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Banking for Every Indian
The scale was striking. Here was the Finance Minister speaking to an audience of a thousand people last Sunday night at Mumbai’s hallowed Brabourne Stadium. His diminutive 150-cm tall frame perched on a high podium was yet a mere speck against a backdrop that stretched nine metres ...
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Hot Gadgets and Hot Money are Not Cool for the Poor
A surge in global interest in helping the poor in new ways is creating new problems for the social sector: a mismatch between the technology and capital coming from developed countries and the front-line organizations’ ability to use it. Those trying to improve the lives of the billions of people that live on less than $2 a day - whether through consumer products, government or charity - are working together in unprecedented new ways. Last week’s Tech4Society Conference in...
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