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    All About India : A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 4)

    India’s health care system is at a crossroads. Its population is getting older, and age and lifestyle-related diseases are on the rise. Yet its health care system is ill-equipped to respond. This fourth and final post in our series on India provides an overview of the country’s biggest health care challenges, and nine solutions for solving them.
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    India’s shift to inclusive innovation is ‘a model to follow’

    A leading Indian scientist and policymaker is calling on developing countries to adopt an "emerging paradigm" of affordable, less complex and inclusive innovation to promote development and cut poverty.
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    There is a Fortune at the BoP: So why aren’t large corporations capturing it?

    The first generation of writings on the "bottom of the pyramid" were based on the premise that large corporations are better positioned to address the market. But the experience of recent years shows in practice, large corporations have not always responded enthusiastically to the challenge.
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    Using Street Vendors to Improve Children’s Health: An Innovative Solution to Malnutrition

    In the urban slums of Jakarta, young kids are getting enriched, healthy nutrition from an unusual place: franchised food carts. KeBAL street food carts have grown from a small nutrition project piloted by Mercy Corps, to a thriving social enterprise with partners like DSM, the global leader in micronutrients. In this interview, DSM and Mercy Corps discuss the partnership and KeBAL’s innovative approach.
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    5 development innovations to watch in 2013

    Although this year had welcome news about poverty rates falling across the globe, almost two and a half billion people still get by on less than $2 a day. Innovative solutions for tackling global poverty are needed as much as ever. Here are five development innovations to watch in 2013:
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    All About India: A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 1)

    The Indian health care system is in a crucial phase of its development. The country has no shortage of challenges - but it also presents unique opportunities to social enterprises.
    In Part 1 of our series on Indian health care, Zeena Johar identifies the major growth areas in the market, and discusses a potentially game-changing development that may be on the horizon.
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    Independent evaluation validates UNITAID’s approach

    UNITAID has established itself as a pioneering innovative financing mechanism with a successful business model to improve product markets for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, according to UNITAID’s first independent Five-Year Evaluation.
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    Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera

    Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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