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WhatsApp’s Integration of UPI-Based Payments Has Strategic Consequences for India’s Digital Economy
The partnership defies 20th century notions of a public private partnership, and offers a glimpse of the private sector tipping its hat to the sovereign function and prerogative in identifying and authenticating the beneficiaries of a digital service.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Harvard Business School Announces Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program
The School’s Social Enterprise Initiative and MBA Program announced today an expansion of the program to include for-profit social enterprise positions. Beginning with the October 2017 application cycle, the program will support alumni working with a nonprofit, public sector organization or for-profit social enterprise.
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- North America
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The Nigerian Prototype: Youth, Companies, Government Rallying Around the SDGs
Nigeria-based Sahara Group has translated the Sustainable Development Goals into strategies that resonate alongside all facets of its work, says Karen Newman. The organization also helped bring together a variety of stakeholders – including young people, a network of companies dedicated to alleviating poverty and the government – to provide greater political traction and ownership of the SDGs.
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India turns to private sector to boost health coverage
India’s new New Health Policy 2017, the first issued in 14 years, takes a sharp turn toward embracing the private sector in its aim to achieve universal health coverage. The government will seek to plug gaps in service for its 1.2 billion people through “strategic purchasing” of care from private facilities and clinics.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How to Improve Access to Malaria Treatment in the Private Sector
PSI recently hosted a webinar on how to transform the market for malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) in the private sector.
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Redefining Global Health: Nations Ascending vs. People Cured
Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health, which helped establish a novel public-private partnership designed to address the shortage of health professionals in emerging economies. Kerry, who will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University, talks about sustainability in global health, overcoming current political challenges and true corporate citizenship.
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How to Improve Public-Private Health Care Collaboration in India
India has made rapid advances in improving health care, but to address lingering issues such as accessibility and quality, the country needs to move toward a better-integrated care system, with public and private providers collaborating. Based on its experiences, ACCESS Health International proposes three key shifts that might help reach that goal.
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Impact Assessment Reveals Visa’s Public-Private Partnership Boosts Financial Inclusion in Rwanda
The assessment concluded that this public-private partnership demonstrated a new model for doing business in emerging markets, which laid the groundwork for enhanced financial inclusion in the country.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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