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Fast Lane to the Future: Three ways the ‘leapfrog effect’ is transforming developing countries – and revolutionizing finance
The “leapfrog effect” refers to the phenomenon, in fast-growing emerging economies, of technological advances permitting shortcuts in infrastructure building. This saves considerable time and money – and can deliver quick results that took more developed countries decades to attain. Here are three ways the leapfrog effect is reshaping economies – and finance – in the developing world.
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Bill Gates to Narendra Modi: You Need to Generate New Healthcare Models for India
After over a year in power, the Narendra Modi government's decisions to cut federal welfare spending on the poorest of India's 1.25 billion people have come in for a sharp criticism, including from within his cabinet.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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India’s missing patients
Lack of awareness and inaccessible healthcare have led to gross under-reporting of illnesses in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- infrastructure
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NexThought Monday – Tapping the Potential of the World’s Largest Minority: Two keys to boosting employment for 70 million disabled people in India
After spending three months analyzing ongoing efforts to increase employment for people with disabilities at the base of the pyramid in India, the author saw two main problems: no collective goals have been established and there’s a lack of transparent impact data demonstrating the economic and social outcomes.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Will BRICS Bank Challenge the Bretton Woods System?
The formal opening of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai on Jul. 21, following the seventh summit of the world’s five leading emerging economies, demonstrates the speed with which an alternative global financial architecture is emerging.
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- Uncategorized
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Safaricom Launches Internet-Ready Commercial and Residential Addresses Initiative
Safaricom has announced that it will be partnering with real estate developers in an initiative that will see the launch of new smart and internet ready addresses in different parts of the country.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Here’s Why Tata Power and Dabur Are Queuing Up to Assist Politicians in Rural Development
One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's more radical calls to action was the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana where members of parliament were tasked with the responsibility of developing three villages by 2019, in constituencies other than their own. It's found resonance not just with politicians eager to establish themselves as more than just a local entity but also with a slew of corporates.
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NexThought Monday – Three Winning Conditions to Enable Mobile Money Interoperability
Interest is growing in the topic of “interoperability” in mobile money and its potential impact for the nascent sector. A handful of deployments, such as in Indonesia and more recently in Tanzania, have garnered attention. Amitabh Saxena, who led mobile money at MasterCard in Latin America, and Selma Ribica, who leads interoperability strategy at Vodafone’s global M-Pesa team, provide nuance on some of the industry perspectives currently being advocated.
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