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B Corps movement eyeing expansion in Asia
Having made some headway in the US – B Lab’s home ground – and Europe, the time may be right to bring the B Corp concept to Asia, B Lab founder Bart Houlahan says.
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- Environment
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- South Asia
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Funding the unfunded: India helps small business borrow to grow
A new bank announced in the annual budget last week could boost loans and cut borrowing costs for the country's cash-starved small businesses - tailors, mechanics and phone booth operators who account for around a fifth of the economy.
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Bengaluru-based Molbio develops India’s first swine flu diagnostic kit
The swine flu flare-up has pushed an indigenous innovation faster into the market, a rare silver lining in an otherwise gloomy story, as India battles the worst outbreak of the virus in the past five years.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Maternal health in India much worse than previously thought, new study finds
More than 40 percent of women in India are underweight when they begin pregnancy, according to a new study published by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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World Bank to boost India’s MSME sector through $500 million loan
The World Bank on Monday approved a $500 million loan for the MSME Growth Innovation and Inclusive Finance Project to improve access to finance for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) working in the manufacturing and services sector at an early stage.
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Drug-resistant malaria threatens to spread to India causing global health crisis
Mutant genes that are resistant to a vital anti-malaria drug were found in the blood of people close to the India border.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Hong Kong social enterprises should aim to turn over HK$10b a year
The government has been urged to set financial targets for social enterprises as it prepares to pour more money into businesses dedicated to improving people's lives and the environment.
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Can Too Many Free and Subsidized Condoms Actually Harm Markets?
In Myanmar, sexual encounters are the most common mode of HIV transmission, causing the epidemic to concentrate among key populations such as female sex workers (FSW) and their male clients (MC), as well as men who have sex with men (MSM). Since 1996, PSI/Myanmar has targeted its condom social marketing program to these groups in order to achieve the greatest impact by preventing the spread of infection.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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