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    Now Private Firms Eye State Hospitals, by Luke Mulunda

    Yesterday, the Kenya Health Federation said given the chance, the private sector could put up a basic structure that would avail quality healthcare to all Kenyans. The government should at least contract out badly run and managed facilities to us, said Maliti, who also doubles as the executive director of the Kenya Private Sector Foundation. This will be consistent with its commitment to a market-driven economy where private enterprise plays a major role in developing goo...
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    UK banks not best option for remittances to Developing Countries

    Specialist money transfer companies are generally cheaper than high street banks for immigrants to send money home to developing countries from the UK and informal methods are the cheapest according to a survey published by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). On Thursday DFID launched the results of the UK survey into the best ways for people to send money to relatives and friends in developing countries. This is the first survey of its kind in the UK, and addresses a...
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    GE Pins Hopes on Emerging Markets

    Strategy Is Major Shift From Reliance on the West; Big Rivals Echo Approach, by Kathryn Kranhold General Electric Co. expects to get as much as 60% of its revenue growth from developing countries over the next decade, Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt said in the company’s annual report. After nearly four years of reshaping the company through $60 billion in acquisitions of financing, water treatment, security systems, bioscience businesses and a movi...
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