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Over 70% of Accounts Opened Under India’s Jan Dhan Financial Inclusion Drive Are Now Active
More than seven out of every 10 bank accounts opened for the unbanked, mainly for direct transfer of benefits, are seeing transactions, data showed.
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A future where ‘social’ is taken for granted
On average, stocks in India have plunged roughly 10 percent since the beginning of the year, but shares of the hospital chain Narayana Hrudayalaya have been trading at more than 10 percent higher than its public offering price.
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Google India report: Mobile growth shaping India’s internet usage
Google India has put out a report which captures the incredible pace of Internet growth that India is witnessing.
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Is more funding the answer to Pakistan’s struggling microfinance sector?
Microfinance is a booming industry in neighbouring India and Bangladesh, but has had a slower rise in Pakistan.
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Practo: Rural India is online healthcare’s big challenge
India's online health care sector is growing at a remarkable pace but the disparity between how rural and urban India benefit from it are stark.
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Where Ideas for Social Enterprise Take Wing
A graduate from Oxford University, Manas Nanda's dream was to make a social change. He found his way back to his roots by starting 'Harvest Wild', a social enterprise, with an aim to create livelihood opportunities for people living in remote forest areas in India. It was at IIM-Bangalore's incubation cell, NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), where his idea of bubble nut wash was mentored.
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Bengaluru Is Achieving What Many Regions Could Not: Stanford Business School Dean
Stanford university’s Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) counts numerous Silicon Valley entrepreneurs among its alumni, including Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla. In 2013, Stanford GSB launched its Ignite programme for entrepreneurs and innovators, with Infosys’s Bengaluru campus acting as the host facility. Its Dean Garth Saloner was in India recently to explore the possibility of finding a facility host for The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (Stanford Seed). Saloner spoke to Forbes India about the importance of the entrepreneurial process and why Bengaluru has managed to create an enviable startup ecosystem.
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Viewpoint: Regulators Should Leave China’s P2P Sector Alone
I got into a shouting match with my 83-year-old father-in-law the other day in Shanghai. He had invested 300,000 yuan ($45,940) in Zhongda, an obscure peer-to-peer lending company based in Zhejiang Province. So far he has not suffered a loss from his adventure but he has refused to pull his money out despite my insistence that he do so.
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