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100 Small Steps: Will India’s Bank Licenses Bring Reform?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been steadily reforming India’s financial sector, in addition to achieving notable monetary policy successes. A few weeks back, the RBI granted licenses to 11 payments banks and followed that with licenses to 10 smallfinance banks.
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Retail Chains Sign Up Mobile Wallets in India
Last week, retail chain Shoppers Stop Ltd tied up with mobile wallet FreeCharge, allowing customers to use FreeCharge wallets to make payments across 74 Shoppers Stop outlets, 17 HyperCity stores, 95 Crossword outlets, 19 HomeStop stores, and its online marketplace.
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Making Leeway for Generating Greater Impact in Eastern India
The Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N) has announced a partnership with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) to facilitate the creation of a powerful ecosystem for entrepreneurship development in Eastern India. This partnership with IIMCIP furthers I3N’s commitment and ability to generate impact in Eastern India.
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Collectives Help Rural Women ‘Lean In’
In the world of microfinance, women’s collectives have acquired a great deal of prominence globally and are known by various names such as Self Help Groups (SHGs), Joint Liability Groups (JLG), or Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA). There is a strongly held belief that the formation of these groups has transformed the lives of women, improving their financial status due to the direct links between the microcredit, obtained through the group, and the livelihood activities financed by this credit.
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JSPL Foundation Ties Up With ECHO to Provide Speciality Healthcare in Rural India
The tie up will help gain access to real-time medical consultations for complex medical cases in areas that have scarce resources.
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CAMTech’s Open Innovation Platform to Address Diabetes Epidemic in India
The Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Global Health will host a Diabetes Innovation Hack-a-thon in Hyderabad on October 10-11, 2015. Organized in partnership with Lattice Innovations and with support from Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF), Terumo and Medtronic, the event brings together some of India’s brightest minds to develop innovative and affordable health technologies that will improve the prevention, diagnosis and management of diabetes in India and globally.
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Unequal Access to Healthcare in Sri Lanka?
In the last two decades, there has been a steady erosion of the provision of free health care by a quickly spreading private health system. Middle class families are paying out-of-pocket or becoming dependent on health insurance schemes, while poorer families are being forced to access private health care in life and death matters.
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Modi in US: Major Announcements for Digital India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Silicon Valley has also come with some major announcements like Wi-Fi in railways stations and broadband connectivity in villages.
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