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Let Me Keep My Cash: The challenge of digitizing wages in Bangladesh’s garment sector
In the search for ways to jump-start the use of electronic money, some proponents are focusing on the digitization of wage and salary payments. But InterMedia’s latest research in Bangladesh suggests that convincing workers to embrace cashless payments may not be a slam-dunk.
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MSF Calls for Scale-Up of “Viral Load” Monitoring to Improve HIV Treatment in Developing Countries
Global Fund and US-gov’t PEPFAR program must use purchasing power to get better prices for viral load tests.
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- Health Care
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A Celeb-Backed Apparel Factory in Haiti Goes High-End
When apparel brand Boxercraft was searching for a new supplier for its T-shirts and tank tops earlier this year, it didn’t turn to factories that crank out millions on the cheap. Instead, the 120-employee business, based near Atlanta, chose Industrial Revolution II, a garment manufacturer in Haiti. What clinched the deal was more than IRII’s competitive prices and low importing costs: It was the venture’s promise to train unemployed Haitians, pay them more than the minimum wage, and donate half its profits to social programs.
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Demand Forecasting Takes Off: How improved strategic demand forecasting is helping global health investors, manufacturers and donors
Poor forecasting of expected demand for key products is a pervasive problem in global health. It can lead to the waste of unsold drugs, instability in the prices and availability of essential products, and even drug shortages, resulting in incomplete treatments and drug resistance. But as the Center for Global Development reports, global health funders are making important progress on the issue.
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D-Rev’s “Brilliance” Goes Global: CEO Krista Donaldson on designing products for the poor – and how to get businesses to sell them
Last week D-Rev announced that its Brilliance medical device for treating newborns with severe jaundice is now available for the global market. In this interview, D-Rev CEO Krista Donaldson explains how the non-profit makes a business case to manufacturers and distributors.
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Bangladesh could be ‘next China’
Bangladesh must act soon to take advantage of its low-cost edge to become the "next China" before Dhaka's competitors take the markets the world's second largest economy is leaving, according to the World Bank.
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- South Asia
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In Rural India, Manufacturing Is Booming
When you think rural India, think factories and cell phones, rather than fields and bullock carts.Rural India, says a Credit Suisse report, is no longer an agrarian economy whose fortunes are dependent upon an erratic monsoon. Rather, they are now increasingly tied to the national economic cycle, something they had been largely immune from so far, as it gradually shifts away from agriculture.
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- South Asia
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A Wish for Sharing: Why Social Entrepreneurs Don’t Need A Bottled Genie to Gain
More often than not, entrepreneurs who share the same mission – ending energy poverty, hesitate to share resources, even if we all benefit. What are we afraid of? Is it the fear that all our hard work simply paved the way for someone else to get credit for lifting a billion villagers out of energy poverty? Or maybe it’s the bucks we were planning to make while perusing our lofty goal?
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