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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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- Education, Health Care
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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- vaccines
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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is still a top goal for many leaders in global health.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, infrastructure
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Can telcos predict Mobile Money hotspots?
A study by CGAP looks at the relationship between voice call routes and money transfer, trying to help telcos focus their investment in mobile money solutions.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities
At a recently-held seminar organised by the Pathfinder Foundation in Colombo, a paper and three presentations were publicised under the theme ‘microfinance as a tool for empowering conflict-affected communities’.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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Loans facilitate skill development training in India
Skill development training, which costs anywhere between Rs 20, 000 and Rs 50,000 for a typical engineering student, now comes along with loans which can be converted into easy monthly installments (EMIs).
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Corporate social responsibility and India Inc: IT leads, finance lags
Reporting on corporate social responsibility has been undertaken by almost three quarters (73 percent) of large Indian companies, led by the IT sector, shows a new survey by KPMG.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia