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Technology Meets Healthcare in India
When it comes to healthcare, developing nations face the challenges of accessibility and affordability. This is particularly true for healthcare in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Can Tech Solutions Power a New Kind of Health Care for the Developing World?
People around the world risk their lives by trusting health care workers who sometimes are doing nothing more than shooting in the dark.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Murmurs of a Fresh Crisis in India’s Microfinance Sector
The questions of microfinance, overlending and women’s suicides are cropping up all over again. The murmurs have been going on for a while, broadly indicating that the hotspots have shifted to eastern Uttar Pradesh and some other pockets.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- lending, microfinance
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India sets an example in subsidised TB diagnosis
There is a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy TB scenario in India. Of the 12 high-burden countries where the private sector is a major player in providing health care, the Indian private sector offers the cheapest price for the WHO-approved Xpert MTB/RIF, a molecular test for diagnosing TB. India also has the highest number of private labs offering the test, with 113 labs offering it at a subsidised rate.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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The Hybrid Investor
For once, Head Office starts with a wager with myself. I’m on my way to meet Roopa Kudva, managing director of Omidyar Network India Advisors, the Indian arm of the Silicon Valley-headquartered impact investors.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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ADB Expends Leasing Company Loan to Boost China’s Health System
Despite a reform programme and efforts to scale up healthcare funding in China, the ADB said shortfalls remain in access to finance in some underdeveloped regions. Lease finance, whereby a leasing company buys an asset on behalf of the user and rents it to them for an agreed period, offers an attractive option for hospitals needing high-value equipment, it said.
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- Health Care
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Will India Go Cashless If Mobile Payments Take Off?
As soon as Binod Upadhyay arrives at a destination he immediately turns round to check if the customer is pulling out a wallet or a mobile phone.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Social Business Incubator Villgro Completes First Round of Fundraising
Social business incubator Villgro has completed the first round of fundraising for its impact fund Menterra Venture Advisors that it has launched for making early-stage investments in healthcare, energy, agriculture, education and skilling startup companies.
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- Uncategorized
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