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India’s Pharma Sector Pips Global Growth
The global pharma industry is set to grow at an annual rate of 5% between 2015 and 2020 to cross $1.3 trillion by 2020 while the Indian market is expected to grow over 15% annually in this period, according to a study by UBM India, the Indian arm of London-based media and events company.
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Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Credit Bureaus in India
Crif High Mark Credit Information Services Pvt. Ltd, one of the four credit bureaus in India, in November, launched its first customer- specific product—online credit report and credit score. These will come with risk indicators such as low, medium and high so that the customer can understand what the score means, said Kalpana P. Pandey, chief executive officer and managing director, of the company. The bureau offers two products—credit report at and credit report and score. Pandey spoke to Mint about the evolving landscape of credit bureaus in India, and the company’s plans to service small finance banks and payments banks.
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Cash Transfers in India: Look Before You Leap
The relentless focus on financial inclusion on the deposits side leads to a logical implication that these accounts can be used to transfer money from the government to the targeted recipient, making the action seamless and free from manual intervention. This is the basis of a direct benefit transfer where a wage or pension is transferred to the account without the individual going to the office asking for it. The corollary is the same can be used for other government programmes, ranging from food subsidy to conditional transfers like the mid-day meal programme for children. The examples of Brazil and Mexico have often been given to buttress this argument. How can we evaluate this option?
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Pfizer, IIT Delhi Launch Incubation Accelerator for Healthcare Innovations
Pharma major Pfizer and IIT Delhi on Tuesday announced the launch of 'The Pfizer IIT-Delhi Innovation and IT program', an incubation accelerator initiative at the institute.
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Chennai’s New Strategy to Eliminate TB
Thanks to the Zero TB Cities project, if all goes well, Chennai may drastically reduce TB mortality, shrink the number of new cases annually and impact TB prevalence in the city in a matter of 3-5 years.
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Vodafone India Looks to Double Impact of CSR Programme
Vodafone India wants to double the impact of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme. Last year, around 50 employees volunteered for CSR initiatives, working for eight weeks at 25 NGOs and impacting about 1 million lives.
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Unitus Seed Fund to Raise $50 Million in Second Innings
Unitus Seed Fund, a 'social impact investor' that invests at very early seed stages, says it is raising a second fund of $50 million.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Are e-Wallets Beginning to Worry Banks in India?
In the last week of October, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma received a message from State Bank of India (SBI). It wasn’t good news. The message said the nation’s largest lender and its associate banks would no longer allow their customers to load money from their accounts onto the Paytm wallet.
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