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Can renewable energy help address poverty in China?
China is fast becoming a green energy superpower, leading the world in investment and installation of low-carbon technology. The most widely discussed drivers of this renewables surge include the desire to cut greenhouse gas emissions, boost energy security and catch up with, or overtake, industrialised countries in technological innovation.
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China Approves Pfizer Vaccine Prevenar
Chinese regulators have approved Pfizer Inc's blockbuster vaccine Prevenar 13, the U.S. drugmaker said on Wednesday, a breakthrough for the firm after it was forced to shut its vaccine business in China last year.
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- South Asia
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Opinion: Understanding effective service delivery for rural health care
What differentiates a high performing health service delivery model from an ordinary service delivery system? Over the years, with the exponential rise in health care spending, health practitioners are increasingly looking for affordable and value-added service models as the key ingredient for delivering effective care.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Cancer Institute, ‘goClinix’ conduct camps
In an effort to make cancer care affordable, Cancer Institute has partnered with ‘goClinix’, through which it plans to reach out to the underprivileged. According to chairman of surgical oncology of Adyar Cancer Institute Dr E Hemanth Raj, ‘goClinix’ would bring in affordable medicine which can serve a lot of people.
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- Health Care
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Why One Indian Entrepreneur Is Investing In Smart Villages, Not Smart Cities
Varun Chandran grew up in a village in rural India. Till his late teens, he didn’t know what the Internet was. Now, he’s running a startup, Corporate360, that works with IT clients around the world. The global community, he says, should invest in smart villages as much as they are in smart cities.
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- Investing
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Emaar India Organizes Free Health Camps for Its Site Workers
India's leading real estate developer Emaar India is conducting a fortnight-long free health checkup and screening program for construction labourers and staff employed at it project sites in Gurgaon and Mohali.
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New GSMA Study Projects Almost One Billion Mobile Subscribers India 2020
India is expected to see a significant uptake in mobile subscriptions, broadband and connectivity by 2020, marking a period of rapid development of the country’s mobile economy, according to a new GSMA Intelligence study published today. The new report, ‘The Mobile Economy: India 2016’, noted that at the end of June 2016, 616 million unique users had subscribed to mobile services in India, making it the second-largest mobile market globally, with almost one billion unique mobile subscribers1expected by 2020. India also overtook the United States in 2016 to become the world’s second-largest smartphone market with an installed base of 275 million devices.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- fintech
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Payday Loans Emerging As Nascent Market in India
Payday loans are decried a scourge, a menace and our dubbed "loan sharks" in the US and UK. With very high interest rates of 45%-50%, payday loans are given in advance of the next pay cheque and cater to blue collar workers, who are paid on a weekly basis. In India, payday loans are at a nascent stage and just taking off with a host of startups like RupeeLend, MoneyinMinutes, QuickCredit, Money4You.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- lending
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