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Will impact investing stay on the sidelines or become a main stage player for global change? Join editors of The Economist and 200 financiers, institutional investors, policymakers, academics, impact investors and philanthropists at "Investing for Impact: Risk, return and the future of the world." NextBillion readers get 15 percent off tickets for the Feb. 15 gathering in New York City by registering with our discount code.
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Helping Low-Income Patients Breathe Easier: Three Solutions to Oxygen Market Failures
For a child with severe pneumonia—and every other patient struggling for breath—access to oxygen is a matter of life or death. And even though oxygen is just as important to hospitals and clinics as electricity and water, market failures stand between oxygen and the people who need it. While medicines and vaccines are its primary focus, the global NGO PATH recently zeroed in on how to improve oxygen supplies in low- and middle-income countries.
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