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India’s new government vows clampdown on healthcare graft
India's health minister called for tougher laws on Tuesday after a media report alleged that laboratories had offered kickbacks to doctors who referred patients to their diagnostic centres.
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- South Asia
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Financial Inclusion in Paraguay: New Mobile Money Regulation
The opportunity to increase financial access in Paraguay is massive.
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- Latin America
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‘Sustainability’ Remains the Holy Grail: But the road to achieving it is paved with divergent visions
When global health leaders gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Partners’ Forum to shape the post-2015 agenda for maternal and child health, sustainability was much discussed as a chief element in ending preventable deaths. But just below the surface lay a truth even more profound: Sustainability manifests differently for just about everyone.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Medanta-The Medicity: World class health care, with a soul
Dr Naresh Trehan's vision for his latest venture is to emulate the best-in-class health care facilities in the world
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What if everything we know about poor countries’ economies is totally wrong?
As China and India continue their fairly rapid paces of economic growth, a greater and greater share of extreme poverty is going to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. But if we're going to make progress there, we need to have good numbers about how various economies are faring, how income is distributed within them, and so forth.
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The key to a more productive classroom is more recess
More and more US banks are getting out of the money-transfer business, Dealbook notes (paywall). A series of money-laundering scandals, punished by eye-popping fines, has made them cautious: Bank of America, HSBC, Citigroup and JP Morgan have pulled out altogether, while BBVA is reportedly looking to sell off a business unit that handles wire transfers in Latin America.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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From Vision to Reality: RBI ruling brings India one step closer to true financial inclusion
In a recent landmark ruling, the Reserve Bank of India has allowed non-banking financial companies to provide basic services such as bank accounts and transaction services. This paves the way for microfinance institutions to jump into the fray, and could drive true financial inclusion in a country where 720 million people still do not have a bank account.
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Indonesia Receives Us$500 Million from World Bank in Support of Financial Sector Reform Policies
WASHINGTON, July 1 -- World Bank issued the following news release:The World Bank'sBoard of Executive Directors approved today a US$500 millionFinancial Sector Reform and Modernization Development Policy Loan for the Government of Indonesia. The loan supports Indonesia's policies aimed at reinforcing the stability of the financial system, diversifying the financial sector, and expanding financial inclusion to reach the poor and other underserved groups.
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