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Experts: Population to Grow from 7 to 11 Billion
Our planet is home to about seven billion people. Since the 1990s, population experts have predicted the number would grow to ninebillion before it begins to slow down and possibly decrease.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Health insurers offer Nano price
With increased penetration of government health insurance schemes like RSBY ( Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana) coupled with private hospitals building capacity across the country, health insurers are also looking at smaller markets.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: British government and Unilever join forces to help world’s poor
Justine Greening has signed a joint letter of intent with Unilever CEO Paul Polman, committing to a new partnership.
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For Social Enterprises, The Bottom Line is Impact: Four Lessons About Investing in Social Businesses
Despite Cambodia's rapid economic growth driven by strong exports, private investment and a growing agricultural industry, nearly one in five Cambodians live below the international poverty line.
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Multinational Companies Court Lower-Income Consumers
When General Electric engineers here wanted to develop a more affordable baby warmer for India’s small, private hospitals, they initially replaced the fat, rubberized wheels standard on high-end models with smaller metal ones. They figured it was a quick, easy way to cut costs.
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Big Data enables us to reach the bottom of the pyramid: TTSL CIO
Tata Teleservices has become one of the first companies in India to harness big data to bolster its legal and regulatory operational requirements.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Multinational Companies Court Lower-Income Consumers
For years, multinational companies had little interest in lower-end consumers, figuring no money was to be made. Now, they are increasingly attractive to all types of industries, from consumer product makers to technology businesses.
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Looking for Hybrid Ecosystems to Serve the BoP: Scenes from the first BoP World Convention that took place last month in Singapore
The first BoP World Convention took place in Singapore at the end of August. For an inaugural conference, it attracted a remarkably large and diverse crowd—600 attendees from 40 countries that spanned a multitude of ages and topic specialties, writes organizer Al Hammond. What set this conference off from other BoP gatherings were efforts to consider how these sectors might work together in novel ways to address poverty.
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