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Financial Inclusion is an Opportunity: BR Shetty
The chairman of the UAE Exchange wants to improve financial literacy among those in the bottom of the economic pyramid
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Bangladesh denies plan to take over Grameen
Bangladesh denied on Tuesday that it plans to take control of pioneering microlender Grameen Bank which has lifted millions of people out of poverty.The statement by a government spokesman came ahead of the release of a report by a commission expected to recommend that the government increase its stake in the Nobel-Prize winning bank to 51 percent from 25 percent.
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‘Two-thirds of injections in India unsafe’
With an aim to protect patients from infections caused by use of unsafe injections, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) launched Safe Injection Environment programme in the city on Sunday, where they talked about the importance of safe injection practices.
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Bottom of the Pyramid and Beyond
Stuart Hart on the idea that revolutionized management thinking
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Heart Surgery in India for $1,583 Costs $106,385 in U.S.
Devi Shetty is obsessed with making heart surgery affordable for millions of Indians. On his office desk are photographs of two of his heroes: Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi.
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Vikram Akula eyes a comeback to SKS Microfinance
Vikram Akula, the one-time poster boy of microfinance in India and founder-chairman of SKS Microfinance, is trying to make a comeback to the very company he founded in 1998 but had lost control two years ago.
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Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food
Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a government-sponsored program
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IIM Calcutta setting up incubator for BoP startups
Startup incubators and accelerators have been cropping up across the country in the recent times (which is good news for the domestic startup ecosystem). Now Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta is planning to set up an incubation centre which will focus on social enterprises addressing the problems of people living at the bottom of the pyramid.
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