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OPINION: Will Equity Crowdfunding Laws Be the Death of Kickstarter?
There have recently been some angry grumblings from the blogosphere about the government wanting to stick its fingers in the crowdfunding pie. The concern across the internet seems to be that new regulations will destroy the rapidly-growing crowdfunding industry that brought us the Pebble Watch and the Veronica Mars movie.
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- crowdfunding, governance
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Political leaders join experts on health to call for innovation in sustainable funding
Global health experts and political leaders meeting in Davos, Switzerland on the side lines of the World Economic Forum, have concluded that finding innovative ways to optimize funding for health programmes in developing and middle-income countries will be key to development and economic growth.
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- Health Care
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Opinion: Statistical illusions do not make a reality for financial inclusion in India
For financial inclusion to be meaningful, it is necessary that people not only have a bank account but also have access to timely and adequate credit at an affordable cost
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- South Asia
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Why Ending Malaria May Be More About Backhoes Than Bed Nets
Wiping out malaria is still a top goal for many leaders in global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, infrastructure
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Health program launched by Indian government to cover urban areas with over 50,000 population
A flagship programme of the UPA government at the Centre, it is a counterpart of the National Rural Health Mission
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- South Asia
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- governance
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How vaccines helped India defeat polio while Pakistan become a reservoir for the virus
The diverging fortunes of India and Pakistan in recent years show what an effective vaccination push can do to tackle disease.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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‘Nation’s economic situation influences health of people’
Academique, an inter-disciplinary group in the DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) held a discussion on 'Social determinants of health' in the 275th session on Sunday.
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Rajiv Shah And Tony Blair On Impact Investing
A new investment fund structured by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will, for the first time, allow individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment