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Incubator and Impact Investor Aims for Multiple BoP Sectors
In July 2011, Anurag Jain decided to leave his position as the head of Dell’s Services Delivery unit, where he lead a team of thousands of IT professionals working in key infrastructure areas like cloud computing, applications, and business process solutions. Jain, an engineer and entrepreneur, decided to focus exclusively on growing a multi-sector BoP impact investing incubator, Anavo Global LLC.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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In Ghana, For-Profit Health Providers Are An Important Source of Care for Rich and Poor Alike
A new comprehensive analysis of Ghana’s health marketplace conducted recently for the World Bank Group should be mandatory reading for health enterprises, analysts, or others keen to enter, expand or study operations in this progressive west African country.
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- Health Care
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- health care, telemedicine
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Bangladesh’s Mobile Tech Surge, What It Means for Development
While mobile phones have increasingly become ubiquitous in developing countries, Bangladesh has taken the technology’s capabilities a step further. Many new initiatives have leveraged the sheer number of people using mobile phones: 76.4 million in Bangladesh. Neighboring countries have lagged behind in leveraging mobiles for development.
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- Health Care
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Friday Roundup – 8/5/11 – ?Everything is a Remix?
We often confuse innovation with invention. But nothing is ever original; any innovation is just remix of things that came before and reassembled. Our staff and guest writers had a lot to say about innovation this week, both in terms of conceptual thinking around creating something new and regarding concrete innovations to reduce poverty.
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- Health Care
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- telemedicine
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Piramal eSwasthya (Part 2): Building Acceptance for Mobile Health
"The world’s most radical yet simplest healthcare delivery model for the BoP, (with the) largest number of patients treated through remote diagnosis - Piramal eSwasthya becomes synonymous with the word telemedicine." That’s the headline the head of Piramal eSwasthya wants to see in 2020. In part two of our interview, he explains achieving it.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Technology
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