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An Economist Who Helps Women Help Themselves
The Life of Science – Cells, electrons or chemical bonds are not on her mind. Hemlata Manglani is a different kind of scientist – she observes the deposits in bank accounts of women in India.
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India’s New Patent Policy Spurs Debate Over Implications for Pharma
Amid an ongoing rift with the US government, India last week issued a new policy about intellectual property, but opinions are divided over whether the move will appease the pharmaceutical industry, which has been pushing the Indian government to strengthen patent protection.
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- public health
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Viewpoint: Unified Payment Interface Will Be the Next Big Thing in Mobile Banking in India
Mobile payments just got a leg-up, thanks to the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), probably the only app of its kind in the world. Virtual wallet services have been around for a while now. UPI goes a step further and allows you to make payments by simply entering the payee's virtual ID on your smartphone and feeding the PIN the app requests. The money is debited directly from your account and transferred to the payee in a matter of minutes, without you having to provide either your bank details or the payee's bank IFSC code. In a few simple steps you can make transactions worth up to a lakh. The app on your phone need not be of the bank you hold your account in, but of any bank whose user experience you prefer. The same goes for the payee. But the transactions still take place between the underlying banks, without you even knowing about it. No need to worry about your credit card details being compromised.
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Public-Private Deal Rejuvenates Healthcare in Rajasthan – At a Cost
In the women’s ward, two newborns are sleeping beside their mothers, one of whom is happy because hers is a boy. The other is unhappy because her child is a girl, and her sixth daughter.
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Samsung Pay Strikes Partnership With Chinese Online Payment Giant Alipay
Samsung announced today that it has cemented a deal that will make Alipay, China’s largest online payments platform, available through Samsung Pay.
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Tata Trusts Inks Pact With The/Nudge Foundation
Tata Trusts and The/Nudge Foundation, a Bangalore-based non-profit working on poverty alleviation at scale on Tuesday inked a pact which will help the foundation to innovate on their flagship 'Programme in Life Management' in their Gurukuls, build the team needed to scale pan-India and gear up for a growth target of 7X in 2016-17.
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Impact investors keen on South Asian markets, hints GIIN survey
According to the GIIN survey, respondents committed a total of $15.2 in 2015 and are likely to commit $17.7 billion in 2016
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Report: Microfinance Institution Gross Loan Portfolio Grows 84% In Q4 in India
Microfinance institutions saw their aggregate gross loan portfolio grow 85 per cent year-on-year to Rs 53,233 crore in the fourth quarter of 2015-16, an industry study said on Wednesday.
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