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eRezeki project to connect Malaysians at bottom 40% of income pyramid with digital income
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today announced the eRezeki project to connect Malaysians at the bottom 40% of the income pyramid (B40) with domestic and global digital income.
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Pharma companies feel law change can weaken ability to provide low-cost drugs
Indian drugmakers and public health activists are deeply worried that sections of the American pharmaceutical industry may use the recently announced Indo-US working committee on intellectual property rights to force changes in Indian patent laws to further their commercial interests at the cost of the domestic industry.
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OPINION: Microfinance in India: To hell and back
In a nation where half the population isn’t served by formal banking system, the microfinance industry acquired a halo in the early part of last decade. And then, the Andhra Pradesh crisis happened.
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India to enter top two markets for health company Abbott
Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" call, global health giant Abbott is setting up a Rs 450-crore plant for manufacturing nutrition products in Jhagadia, Gujarat.
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After Winning Hult Prize, MBA Entrepreneurs Seek To Heal Indian Healthcare
Manish Ranjan led his business school team to victory in the Hult Prize 2014. Now, the MBA entrepreneur has grand plans to help fix India's healthcare system.
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Canada to help India in building smart cities
Canada will help India in building smart cities and achieving its target of housing for all by offering wooden multi-storey housing technology, officials said here Wednesday. In a meeting with Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu here, Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast said his country's "expertise in wood-based housing technology that enables multi-storey construction and India can consider it to meet its ambitious housing targets".
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India’s Financial Inclusion Scheme Can Bring Unorganized Remittances Under Banking Channels
"With the help of the Jan Dhan Yojana, the reach of banking can definitely be expanded, making migrant workers aware of different services," says a senior executive from Bank of India.
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Social enterprise is an emerging force in Pakistan
New social start ups tackling water, energy and construction challenges in Pakistan hope to help break the country’s reliance on aid
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