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Cancer Drugs, Stents at 60 Percent Discount Soon
Over 200 cancer drugs, 186 medicines to treat cardiovascular diseases and 148 stents and cardiac implants will now be available at central government hospitals at prices 50-60% lower than the open market.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Ebix Launches ‘Ask a Doctor’ in Rajasthan, Plans to Expand
The Atlanta, Georgia-based international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, Ebix Inc., recently announced it gas launched its telemedicine service, “Ask a Doctor,” throughout the state of Rajasthan.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Financial Inclusion: Focus on Middle India
Those wedged between India's welfare and market-driven economies have little social security even as they work under precarious employment conditions.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- South Asia
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State Bank of India to Launch Mobile Wallet for Feature Phone Users Next Month
The country's largest lender, State Bank Of India, is all set to become the first bank to offer wallet services for feature phone users.
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- South Asia
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- mobile finance
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India’s Entrepreneurial Answer to Healthcare
A weak public health system has given rise to market-based approaches in India. A new breed of young tech-savvy entrepreneurs are building businesses to help more Indians have access to healthcare.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Here’s What Some Hotels Do With Those Used Bars of Soap
Several years ago, Erin Zaikis was working in rural Thailand. She was surprised to see how many children in the village didn’t wash their hands with soap, much less know what soap was.
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- Health Care
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Health Care Dominates Borrowing in Global South
With policyMakers in emerging market economies stepping up the focus on financial inclusion, India and China have seen the strongest growth in account ownership between 2011 and 2014. If the findings of the World Bank-Gallup Global Findex Survey 2014, which asked over 1,50,000 respondents in 143 countries how and why they access financial services, were to be plotted on a map though, there is a very clear North-South divide in terms of where people spend their borrowed money.
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- Health Care
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Report: Indian American Philanthropy on the Rise: Could Dwarf U.S. Aid to India
New research reports that Indian American philanthropy has expanded from giving to family and community to more broad-based social causes and organizations focused on addressing India's most challenging problems.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- philanthropy, research
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