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Tata Trusts Inks Pact With The/Nudge Foundation
Tata Trusts and The/Nudge Foundation, a Bangalore-based non-profit working on poverty alleviation at scale on Tuesday inked a pact which will help the foundation to innovate on their flagship 'Programme in Life Management' in their Gurukuls, build the team needed to scale pan-India and gear up for a growth target of 7X in 2016-17.
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Impact investors keen on South Asian markets, hints GIIN survey
According to the GIIN survey, respondents committed a total of $15.2 in 2015 and are likely to commit $17.7 billion in 2016
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Report: Microfinance Institution Gross Loan Portfolio Grows 84% In Q4 in India
Microfinance institutions saw their aggregate gross loan portfolio grow 85 per cent year-on-year to Rs 53,233 crore in the fourth quarter of 2015-16, an industry study said on Wednesday.
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This Social Entrepreneur Got Attention and Funding from Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata, one of the famous business tycoons of India is again in news for his love for startups. The Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus has invested in San Francisco-based medical emergency response startup MUrgency Inc. The mobile app startup makes emergency response available with one tap on a mobile phone in less than 9.0 minutes in urban areas.
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Amid India’s Drought Crisis, Suicides Increase Among Farmers Deep In Debt
In India, two consecutive years of weak monsoons have left some 330 million people – a quarter of the country – in the grip of drought. Deepening the crisis, farmers are taking their lives.
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How business schools are fostering social impact
At Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, every student mandatorily takes up a social project as part of the core curriculum. The objective is to make the students understand the society at large and sensitise them to the challenges faced by various sections of the society.
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An Indian Farmer’s Son Is Now Worth More Than $300 Million After His Health Care Firm’s IPO
By his own admission, Arokiaswamy Velumani was born at the bottom of the pyramid. The son of a landless farmer from the nondescript village of Appanickenpatti Padur in Tamil Nadu, Velumani saw through school and college on subsidised funding from the government.
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Serve Rural Areas or Lose License, Central Bank of Nepal Governor Tells Microfinance Institutions
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Governor Chiranjibi Nepal has warned that the central bank may scrap the license of microfinance institutions who fail to reach rural areas of the country.
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