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Bill Gates | 2016 Will Be the Year of Financial Inclusion
Bill Gates describes himself as a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. More recently, he was called the most generous man in the world.
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In India, healthcare is still a seller’s market
Devi Prasad Shetty, chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd, talks to Ashish K Tiwari about the overall healthcare scenario in India, key concerns, and how his company is working towards providing affordable healthcare to the common man.
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A Telemedicine Innovation Is Preventing Blindness in Babies
Every sighted child that is born premature and weighs less than two kg faces a risk of lifetime blindness: a chilling fact that is known to few outside the select community of paediatric retinal surgeons. All that is needed to stop the blindness is screening and a specialised laser operation. But there is next to no awareness on that.
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Fintech’s Five Emerging Powerhouse Markets Are At A Crossroads
Accenture has warned local banking communities in Asia to wake up: It took just nine months for investment in the region’s non-banking fintechs to quadruple from 2014’s $880 million to $3.5 billion.
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Indian Microlender SV Creditline Gets $8M From Blue Orchard
Delhi-based microfinance firm SV Creditline Pvt Ltd (SVCL) said on Friday it has raised $8 million (Rs 52 crore) in funding from global impact investment manager Blue Orchard.
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Trend: Fintech Startups Providing Capital to SMEs in India
New entrepreneurs and small enterprises, which have typically been locked out of the financial system and ignored by big banks and other financial institutions, have found solace in a breed of new financial technology start-ups.
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The Challenges of Cleaning Up Cooking
Khushboo Kushwaha has a few years before she will have to squat in front of a filthy, smoking open stove three times a day to cook meals for her family, as her older sister and cousins do now.
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New Report Calls for Scale-Up of Financial Services “Pathways” to Help End Extreme Poverty
The Microcredit Summit Campaign released its 17th annual survey of the global microfinance industry December 9th at the Inclusive Finance India Summit held in New Delhi, India. Campaign Director Larry Reed featured the publication, "Mapping Pathways out of Poverty: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report, 2015," in his presentation on Wednesday to attendees of India’s premier financial inclusion conference.
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