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Deal leaves risks for global health to fall or be pushed off the cliff
Will the U.S. government's fiscal cliff deal mean steep drops in global health and research funding?
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- Education, Health Care
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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health, research
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PM says rural-urban divide in telecom growth must be bridged for socially inclusive growth
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the full potential of telecommunication in enabling higher growth would not be realised until the use of telephones spread much wider in the rural economy of India as well.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Unleash the World’s Entrepreneurial Geniuses: UN resolution encourages removing constraints on entrepreneurs
Sponsored by Israel’s Mission to the U.N., an unprecedented resolution encourages countries to remove potential licensing, financial and legal barriers that prevent local businesses from stimulating widespread economic and social growth. It also emphasizes the value of teaching entrepreneurial skills at all levels of education, so that everyone—including youth and women—can turn their creativity, energy and ideas into business opportunities
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- governance
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Zambia hosts regional meeting for mapping of unmet country needs
Lusaka, 04 December 2012 -- The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) in collaboration with WHO Global Capacities, Alert and Response has organized a regional meeting for mapping of unmet country needs to accelerate the implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005) in the African Region.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Three Things Governments Should Do For Social Entrepreneurship
Today, Europe’s leaders are discussing a $1,000 bn budget framework for the EU, and for the first time, there are budget lines for social entrepreneurship – although you may have to find them with a very large magnifying glass.
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- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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- governance
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The Paradox of Property Rights and Economic Development
Recent weeks have seen simmering property rights conflicts around the world: Burmese citizens marching in protest against the government’s seizure of their lands for a hotel zone; Vietnamese villagers contesting the confiscation of their land for an EcoPark satellite city project; and violent clashes breaking out in Panama City over a controversial law allowing the sale of state-owned land in the port city of Colón—Latin America’s largest duty-free zone.
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- Agriculture
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Is Obama’s re-election a boon for US foreign aid?
Barack Obama reelection Tuesday (Nov. 6) as U.S. president suggests a continuation of U.S. foreign aid reforms focused on food aid, global health, country ownership and private sector engagement.
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- governance