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Sheetal Mehta Walsh, on the Rise of Social Entrepreneurship
Sheetal Mehta Walsh, is the founder of Shanti Life, a unique microfinance platform serving the poor in Gujarat villages and slums so that they can create sustainable businesses.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Deepa Gangwani: Fomenting Change for Indian Trash Collectors
A shocking incident involving her maid and a trash collector helped set Deepa Gangwani on her quest to help the poor communities near where she lived in India.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Panel spikes government’s rural healthcare plan
The government’s plan to create a new cadre of trained individuals to provide basic healthcare in villages has received a setback with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health rejecting the proposal.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Water for all
NEARLY three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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India’s Primary Health Care Needs Quick Reform
Primary health care delivery needs to reinvent itself. Only then can India aim for universal health coverage.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Asian Development Bank : Pay-As-You-Go Model Expands Solar Energy Access in Rural India
More than 60,000 households in rural India will have better access to electricity by 2015 as Simpa Networks, a company supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), scales up the sales of its off-grid, pay-as-you-go solar energy solutions.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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- social enterprise, solar
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Rs 5,500-cr India Innovation Fund to focus on job creation
NEW DELHI: The government today said the Rs 5,500-crore 'India Inclusive Innovation Fund' will focus on generating employment and supporting livelihoods across the country through innovative enterprises.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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World Bank promises big push to poverty alleviation schemes in India
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday indicated an assured annual funding of $3-5 billion for the next four years to push development projects and poverty eradication programmes.
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- South Asia
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