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Economics Nobel Winner Strong Critic of India’s Poverty Line
Angus Deaton, the Scottish-American Princeton professor who won the Economics Nobel on Monday "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", has a strong India connect with several of his academic papers and articles focused on the country and based on data collected here. Deaton (69) has worked with Jean Dreze of Delhi School of Economics, Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Jishnu Das of World Bank on areas like poverty, healthcare, nutrition, etc. Even his homepage on Princeton website lists 'Poverty in the world and in India' as one of the Nobel winner's main areas of research.
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Indian Banks’ Association Wants to Be Made Party in Supreme Court Challenge to Aadhaar Validity
To protect the interests of the banking industry, Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking to be made a party in a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the Aadhaar card.
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1 Stop Aksh Launches e-Health Service “Ask a Doctor” at e-Mitra Kiosks in Rajasthan
1 Stop Aksh, the e-governance arm of Aksh Optifibre Limited [BSE: 532351 | NSE: AKSHOPTFBR] and e-Mitra, a leading government initiative in Rajasthan for connecting villages through IT infrastructure, today announced that it has launched its first e-Health service at its kiosks where a citizen can ask a doctor about his or her health issues.
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Innovative Infant Resuscitator May Be Introduced in India
An innovation that enables infants, who have difficulty in breathing, to respire immediately after birth, developed by a researcher from the faculty of Harvard Medical School along with a few others could be introduced in India.
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Indian American Social Entrepreneur Bhagwati Agrawal in CNN’s Top 10 Heroes List
Bhagwati Agrawal, an Indian American social entrepreneur, has advanced into CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2015 for creating a rainwater harvesting system that provided safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people across six villages in Rajasthan.
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Mastercard, Singapore Management University Set Up New Financial Inclusion Program
MasterCard and Singapore Management University (SMU) have announced their partnership in a new Social and Financial Inclusion Programme spanning over two years to catalyse research on social entrepreneurship, innovation and financial inclusion.
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Digital Health Market Growth Forecast at 16.87% CAGR to 2019
The Global Digital Health Market - Market Research 2015-2019 report says telemedicine technology has huge potential in rural areas and developing economies such as African countries due to the lack of experienced physicians in these areas.
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Five Minutes with Carolyn Yarina, CEO of Sisu Global Health
On a visit to a clinic in rural India, Carolyn Yarina saw a need for a device that can separate blood into plasma and white and red cells — without electricity to power a centrifuge.
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