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Profit From a Cause
Making and selling portable toilets? Investors wrinkled their noses when Rajeev Kher, Managing Director of Pune-based Saraplast Pvt Ltd, first sought funds from them in 1999. Sixteen years later, the toilets have been such a success that he is spoilt for choice as he looks for a third round of funding. "My company has been profitable for a long time," he says. "But I will never forget that when I started off, it was Aavishkar which came forward to support me."
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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To Make India Truly Digital, Target the Poor, Not Rich
America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the powerful regulator for all communication, has proposed that poor citizens of the US should have subsidised access to the internet via broadband.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Khushi Baby: A High-Tech Way to Track Infant Health
It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Smokeless Tobacco – A Major Cause for Concern in India
Wrapped inside betel leaves and placed in the corner of the mouth, chewing tobacco has been a practice in India for centuries.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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With over six million mobile accounts, Easypaisa becomes third largest bank in Pakistan
Easypaisa, a leading branchless banking service, claimed to have become the country's third largest bank in terms of accounts.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- mobile finance
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India’s microfinance loans are growing at a scorching pace, but it’s a warning signal
The institutions that give tiny loans to the poor somehow seem to be rediscovering their long-lost obsession for rocket-speed loan growth — the same mistake that once shattered the entire industry.
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- Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion Announces MetLife Foundation Grant to Support Financial Inclusion in Myanmar
Financial inclusion pioneer Accion announced today that the MetLife Foundation has awarded Accion a $250,000 grant over two years to support its new MFI, Dawn Microfinance, in Myanmar.
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Why India’s e-commerce startups are going mobile-only
E-commerce companies in India are ignoring the PC and going straight to mobile in the country’s young, but rapidly growing online marketplace.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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