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A Financial Inclusion Revolution?: How last mile delivery and payment systems innovations could help transform India’s economy
India has been fertile ground for many emerging market innovations, in sectors ranging from health care to sustainable energy. Now the country is on the cusp of a financial inclusion revolution shaped by payment system innovations and doorstep delivery models. If it succeeds, it may provide a model of how innovation and forward-thinking public policy can help transform BoP economies.
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India’s Banks not Inclusive Enough
Are commercial banking (as it is currently practiced in India) and attainment of financial inclusion mutually exclusive?
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- South Asia
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Safaricom Cautions Kenya Over Higher Taxes
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom, has warned the government that further increases in Excise Tax – a duty levied on goods or services for sale – will make mobile payment services less affordable for poorer citizens.
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What’s Working – and What’s Not – in Global Health: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 1
BoP countries are increasingly embracing the private health care sector and using public financing to support better development of the market. In this Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other developments on the global health landscape.
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- Health Care
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What ails Indian Healthcare?
In April 2012, there were reports of India’s health expenditure being the lowest in comparison to the BRIC Nations despite growing as fast as them. A year later, the ‘progress report’ barely shows any progress.
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For Indian tech startups, Obamacare mean big bucks as 45 mn Americans pick health covers
A number of young Indian companies that make specialised software and analytics for global healthcare providers are recording a sharp upswing in business as millions of uninsured Americans enrol in a new healthcare system.
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Swati Piramal: How to Make India a World Leader in Low-Cost Health Care
Bad regulations and price control are stifling pharma, but innovation in health care is blossoming with government support
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Taking the long view on Big Pharma in China
Big pharma’s Chinese dreams are bruised, but not broken.
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- Asia Pacific
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