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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Publishes Landscape Reporton Impact Investing Industry in South Asia
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, today published the full release of The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia, a “state of the market” analysis of the impact investing industry in the region. The most comprehensive study of impact investment activity in South Asia to date, the full report includes a chapter for each of the six countries studied—Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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India Has Third-Highest Number of Obese People, Reveals Study
India has the third-highest number of obese and overweight people (11 % of adolescents, and 20 % of all adults) after US and China, a recent study mapping global malnutrition trends has revealed.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Vaccination Reminder Band Tipped to Boost Global Child Inoculation Rates
Ankle band that changes colour to remind parents when vaccines are due comes through trials in Pakistan.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Eight Months on, Two Charts Raise Questions About India’s Financial Inclusion Scheme
Two of every three bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana have zero balance. Not a single insurance claim was settled during the last year.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Mudra Bank Is Just What India’s Microfinance Sector Needed
Mudra Bank can provide some cohesion and impetus to this fragmented space, besides the right kind of regulation.
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Biocon Recognized for Outstanding Contribution to Public Health by WHO – India
Biocon’s integrated healthcare initiatives is constantly engaged in improving the quality of life of several thousand communities in India.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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India’s Push for Banks for All Leaves Some Still Outside
Firozaben, a nurse at an upscale clinic here, opened an account at the state-owned Bank of Baroda Ltd. in December, attracted by the promise of an overdraft provision and accident- and life-insurance policies—all for no fee, courtesy of a government program to bring India’s masses into the banking system.
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Indian E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal Buys Bill Payment Service FreeCharge
Snapdeal, the SoftBank- and eBay-backed online commerce company in India, has completed what it called “one of the biggest acquisitions in the history of the internet industry in India” after it announced the acquisition of online transaction serviceFreeCharge.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- lending
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