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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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- governance, vaccines
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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
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OPINION: A shaky vision for financial inclusion in India
The Nachiket Mor committee report does not address the issues that militate against financial inclusion.
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Nachiket Mor discusses his ambitious financial inclusion proposals for India
A few years ago, when he was based in Thanjavur after leaving ICICI Bank, Nachiket Mor used to decline requests from the press about financial inclusion, saying he had left that discipline. Over the past few months, however, he has come back into the field. He is on the RBI board. More recently, a committee headed by him just submitted an ambitious report on financial inclusion. ET's Vidhya Sivaramakrishnan met Mor for a chat.
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Kenya plans heavy penalties for rogue mobile subscribers and operators
Kenya plans to tame rogue mobile subscribers and operators through stiffer penalties in a new set of laws to be published this week.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, mobile finance
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Ghana to limit microfinance licenses
Bank of Ghana (BoG) seeks to put a ceiling on the rising number of microfinance companies in the country.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, microfinance
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