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Ebola Protective Suits Are In Short Supply
The Ebola outbreak created a demand for personal protective equipment. Clinics can go through hundreds of PPE suits a day. Manufacturers increased production but agencies say there's still a shortage.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin American Business Schools Rise With Social Entrepreneurship
Latin American business schools are drawing more international students and launching more MBA programs with a unique focus on entrepreneurship and social responsibility.
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- Education
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- Latin America
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ideas42 joining with USAID and CGAP to scale up financial heuristics
Project will scale-up pilots applying behavioral economics to create morecustomer-centric financial services
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- Uncategorized
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The Acumen Classroom: Six online courses address nuts and bolts of social entrepreneurship
Our vision is that five, 10 or 20 years down the road, not just Acumen, but everyone will be working on a completely different curve, one that’s smarter in solving problems of poverty. Because of this, our courses emphasize tangible financial and operational skills, such as human-centered design and social impact analysis, as well as leadership training and what we call "moral imagination."
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- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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Philips, PET to commercialise Wind-Up Fetal Heart Rate Monitor
Royal Philips has announced a partnership with South Africa based not-for-profit organization, PET (PowerFree Education Technology), to further develop, test and commercialise a Wind-up Doppler Ultrasound Fetal Heart Rate Monitor aimed at addressing the high rates of preventable infant mortality across Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Partnership to Advance Research on Sustainable and Inclusive Business: Announcing a new report and partnership between the Citi Foundation, Tufts University and Business Fights Poverty
The Citi Foundation, Tufts University and Business Fights Poverty have launched a new partnership, along with a new report: Growth for Good or Good for Growth? The study explores how sustainable and inclusive business activities are changing business.
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- Education
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GE eyes expansion of healthcare and energy operations in SA
General Electric, which is supplying a total of 376 locomotives to Transnet, is looking for opportunities in other sectors in SA, such as healthcare and energy.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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
- Region
- South Asia