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Report: Do companies walk the talk on investing in communities in India?
The third edition of IRBI 2017 report reveals that community development remains a significant thrust area for businesses for their social development projects, but a closer look reveals many shortcomings
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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India’s first AI research institute opened in Mumbai
Based in Mumbai, the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Wadhwani AI) is partnering with the government of Maharashtra for its mission to create AI solutions for social impact. The Maharashtra government will help the institute identify problems, and test and scale the solutions.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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How responsible are India’s lenders? A new report has a few pointers
FPSB and IIM (Lucknow) unveils “Navigator of Responsible Lending- India”—a first-of-its-kind research report on consumer loans that maps major banks and NBFCs across small-ticket personal and consumer durable loans
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- South Asia
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- lending
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India adopting to mobile wallets faster than US, UK; beats China too
Mobile wallets had emerged as an e-commerce payment tool in India but post demonetisation, are being used for day-to-day transactions at supermarkets, grocery stores, street vendors, tea stalls, fuel stations, and even inside taxis and auto-rickshaws.
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- Finance
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Who made my clothes? Asian workers’ diaries show ‘human cost’ of fashion
A year-long study of more than 500 workers in Cambodia, India and Bangladesh found women often work overtime or borrow money from their husbands to feed their families and pay rent.
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- South Asia
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- human rights
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Pakistan Post, National Bank of Pakistan sign a Memorandum of Understanding to boost digital financial services
Pakistan Post and National Bank of Pakistan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here at ECO Postal Staff College Auditorium to boost Digital Financial Services in the country through a huge network of 12,000 Post Offices countrywide as well as to achieve the target of the State Bank of Pakistan for strengthening National Financial Inclusion Strategy extending Digital Financial Services to 50% population of Pakistan by the year 2020.
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- Finance
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India’s mobile wallet companies feel the pinch of full know-your-customer guidelines
The Payments Council of India, a lobby group for mobile wallet companies, has asked the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw full know-your-customer requirements for them, claiming they would otherwise lose customers.
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- Finance
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Google’s Tez payments app now lets users handle their utility bills and more
Google’s Tez payment service in India has gotten a major update that allows users to pay their utilities and other bills via the app.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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