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Doctors Without Training: Can regulatory innovations close the quality gap in BoP health care?
In many countries, shortfalls in health care quality are not the exception but the rule. In one rural Indian state, for example, a recent paper found that 67 percent of sampled health care providers reported no medical qualifications at all. But a number of regulatory innovations promise to address this problem - often by developing market-based alternatives to government regulation.
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Citi Foundation: Investing in products, access and people for financial inclusion
For many years, the Citi Foundation made many small grants. In 2008, we made 2,600 of them, some for just $2,500. They focused on activities accomplished rather than impact and results. Our objective was to disburse grants to as many community-based organizations as our financial resources would allow, with programs in many areas. We realized we needed to focus and set measurable impact targets that reflected sound investment thinking and responsible use of financial resources.
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Q&A: Developing Entrepreneurship in Tibetan Settlements in India
Sambuddha Bhattacharya joined TechnoServe India as a Volunteer Consultant in April 2012. He has advised several leading Indian companies at KPMG Advisory and served as Strategy Consultant at India’s largest law firm, Amarchand Mangaldas. An entrepreneur himself, Sambuddha recently co-founded skillhippo.com, an online skills marketplace.
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- Agriculture
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Ashoka Changemakers #socintchat Twitter Chat to Discuss Social ‘Intrapreneurship’
Ashoka Changemakers is hosting a Twitter chat Thursday (Jan. 10) at 3PM IST on ‘Social Intrapreneurship’ .
Social intrapreneurs are becoming instigators in the race towards a new kind of economy. These changemakers are developing innovative and scalable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems ranging from health to education to environment.- Categories
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