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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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- South Asia
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Grassroot-level innovations may hold the key to global challenges
Development professionals should help spread the ideas that are effective in solving problems but often remain in obscurity.
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Applications Open for Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013”
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, and the Jubilant Bhartia Foundation, an Indian nonprofit, have announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2013 Indian “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award.”
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Blue Collar, Inc
Krishna Kumar used to spend his days listlessly gathering scrap in garbage dumps across Motihari in Bihar.
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“Being a woman gives me patience and humility”
Aparajita Agrawal's Sankalp Forum is the first platform globally that has social enterprises at its core.
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World Bank proposes multi-billion plan to reduce poverty in India
The World Bank has come out with a multi-billion ($12-20 billion) four-year plan aimed at bringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian States.
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Coughing Dragon, Sneezing Elephant: China, India, and Global Health Governance
The recent H7N9 flu scare in China has shown once again that we live in “an epidemiologically interdependent world.”
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India readying to take on absolute emission reduction cuts
India is preparing to take on absolute emission reduction cuts under the new global climate compact to be signed in 2015.
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