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World’s largest family planning conference under way
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday reiterated its pledge of an additional $120 million over the next three years to accelerate improved access to modern contraceptive methods for 120 million more women and girls throughout the developing world who lack access to quality family planning programs.
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Viewpoint: Why I joined a mobile payment system I can’t use
As it turns out, incentivizing has been a big differentiator between Alipay and its less successful western counterparts.
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The 10 Per Cent Solution
When the cow is in the news mostly for the wrong reasons, an Indian company based in Hyderabad gives us a reason to smile. Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL) turns out to be a subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board. The latter of course was started by the “milkman of India” Verghese Kurien. As Operation Flood, with the aim of turning India into a milk surplus nation, stunned all with its success, the NDDB realised it was spending a fortune on cattle vaccines. In the ’80s, one dose of vaccine cost Rs 14 (equivalent to about Rs 350 today). The NDDB decided to set up IIL, its own vaccine manufacturing subsidiary, in 1982.
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IFC Lends P700 Million to Two Philippines Financial Institutions for MSME Financing
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a seven-year loan to CARD Bank, Inc. and CARD SME Bank, Inc. to benefit micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), microfinance borrowers, and women in rural areas.
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Ethical Business Actions and Poverty Reduction
Poverty alleviation is the main concern of many countries. Poverty is said to be an economic, social, cultural, political and moral phenomenon. Like the issue, its solutions are multi-faceted. It requires a collective action from governments, corporations, citizens, consumers, workers, investors and educators.
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Sanofi Pasteur CEO Has Ambitious Goals
The APEC CEO Summit, part of the Asia Economic Conference (Apec) Philippines 2015, is the Asia-Pacific’s premier business event for Apec leaders and business executives to discuss the futere of Asia-Pacific economies. Olivier Charmeil, Sanofi Pasteur’s CEO, joins other business leaders for a two-day discussion, presentations and dialogue on a wide range of issues that will impact the future development of the region, including innovation, trade, sustainability and disaster resilience.
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Asian Firms Can Take the Lead in Curbing Poverty, WB Says
Family-owned Asian businesses like the conglomerates that dominate the Philippine economy get a bad rap from more widely held “western” corporations, which are seen as more competitive due to better management.
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How Innovative Financing and Partnerships Are Transforming the Infectious Disease Product Pipeline
A biotech company CEO approached me at a conference recently with a potential solution for a rapid point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis. This is a disease with nearly 9 million new cases and over a million deaths annually, a disease that desperately needs a rapid diagnostic since patients with active TB, if left undiagnosed, can infect an average of 10-15 additional people each year.
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