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World Leaders Urged to Cut Air Pollution to Save Lives in Poor Countries
World governments have been urged to tackle air pollution in poorer countries by greening cities, reducing traffic and adopting better diets, and told that this will also rein in climate change, which global health specialists estimate will cause at least 250,000 additional deaths a year by 2030.
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Nucleus Launches Offline Digital Cash Solution in India
Adding another tool to push the Indian economy from cash to digital, Bombay Stock Exchange-listed banking and financial solutions company Nucleus Software Exports Ltd on Wednesday launched an offline digital cash solution technology, PaySe.
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In India, IBM’s Watson Will Aid Cancer Care Where Doctors Are Scarce
IBM IBM +0.00% and a large hospital system in India have partnered to diagnose and treat cancer care in a country of 1.2 billion residents who often cannot access oncologists, leaving their diseases undetected and untreated.
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India’s “Health Camps”: The Drug Rep Will See You Now
Pharmaceutical sales representatives are screening people in India in return for prescriptions for their products while calling it corporate social responsibility. Frederik Joelving investigates.
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Can This Necklace Help More Kids Get Vaccinated?
It looks like a normal necklace. Just a small, clear plastic droplet dangling from a thick black thread.
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India’s Pharma Sector Pips Global Growth
The global pharma industry is set to grow at an annual rate of 5% between 2015 and 2020 to cross $1.3 trillion by 2020 while the Indian market is expected to grow over 15% annually in this period, according to a study by UBM India, the Indian arm of London-based media and events company.
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Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Credit Bureaus in India
Crif High Mark Credit Information Services Pvt. Ltd, one of the four credit bureaus in India, in November, launched its first customer- specific product—online credit report and credit score. These will come with risk indicators such as low, medium and high so that the customer can understand what the score means, said Kalpana P. Pandey, chief executive officer and managing director, of the company. The bureau offers two products—credit report at and credit report and score. Pandey spoke to Mint about the evolving landscape of credit bureaus in India, and the company’s plans to service small finance banks and payments banks.
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Cash Transfers in India: Look Before You Leap
The relentless focus on financial inclusion on the deposits side leads to a logical implication that these accounts can be used to transfer money from the government to the targeted recipient, making the action seamless and free from manual intervention. This is the basis of a direct benefit transfer where a wage or pension is transferred to the account without the individual going to the office asking for it. The corollary is the same can be used for other government programmes, ranging from food subsidy to conditional transfers like the mid-day meal programme for children. The examples of Brazil and Mexico have often been given to buttress this argument. How can we evaluate this option?
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