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Weekly Roundup 11-15-14: New worries about India being the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’
India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world." That’s why it was so scary to learn this week that tainted medicines might have been behind the botched government-run sterilizations there. We discuss that story, and other global health developments, in this Roundup.
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Trillion-Sensor Vision, Results Shared
UCSD researchers show latest efforts
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- Education, Environment
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75% of Jan Dhan accounts empty: Indian financial inclusion scheme may be missing its objective
Initial indications from the data on Prime Minister's Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) are that the grand financial inclusion scheme of the Narendra Modi government has failed to achieve its original objective - to encourage the country's vast unbanked poor population to use bank accounts for cash transactions.
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India Post keen to become a universal bank
India Post is interested in turning itself into a universal bank like many of its peers across the world and a committee under former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian is looking into the matter, a senior department official said today.
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion and MasterCard Foundation Partner to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa
The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion today announced a $6.1 millionpartnership with The MasterCard Foundation to launch the Accion Africa Board Fellowship program.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ten global organizations join MIT D-Lab’s Practical Impact Alliance
Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and others sign on to the Practical Impact Alliance, a collaborative initiative aiming to scale poverty solutions worldwide.
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3-D Printed Plastic Could Replace Not-Very-Good Corrugated Iron Roofs In The Developing World
The modular system might an ideal alternative for the rusty, non-insulated roofs that are pervasive in poorer countries.
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- Technology
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Twitter Top Ten – 11-9-14: Our favorite tweets of the week
As our Twitter Top Ten "pilot feature" enters its fourth week, we’ve got a wide array of eye-catching tweets served up by NextBillion’s editorial staff.
This week’s selections cover everything from entrepreneur-focused TED talks to Facebook and Ebola - along with plenty of maps.- Categories
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