Living Goods, a social enterprise based in San Francisco, has built a network of door-to-door salespeople in Uganda A dose of competition is sometimes what's required to get life-saving medicines and other needed products to urban slum dwellers and the rural poor. Drugs to treat malaria, for example...
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I had the good fortune to meet Harold Rosen , the CEO of Grass Roots Business Fund in Mumbai, at a meeting they held for the Mumbai Angels , of which I am a member. GRBF has have been doing some great work with helping social entrepreneurs create businesses which are sustainable, scalable and have a...
Your embryos are graded according to their microscopic appearance and are given a rank (like grade A, grade B, grade C and so on). A day 3 embryo which gets the topmost grade will have 8 cells which are equal in size, with all cells having single nucleus , without any fragments. If you have 10 embryos...
Conscious Capitalism, the new book by Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey, offers flashes of real wisdom; these are the five points with which I resonated the most. Read More...
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I had a very interesting conversation with a physician who is the chief medical information technology officer for a large hospital chain in the USA. What he revealed was quite eye-opening . As we all know, the big problem with EMRs ( electronic medical records ) today is that they have not been enthusiastically...
One of the elephants in the room as far as Indian healthcare goes is the huge amount of health insurance fraud which is corroding the Indian healthcare system on a regular basis. Because we don’t address this problem , it just gets progressively worse day by day. This is a problem which actually acts...
About 20,000 loans for first-timers were advanced in October, but wary market expert labels them 'the transactions of a privileged few' The number of mortgages taken out by first-time buyers leapt by 14% in October following a quiet September, according to figures from the Council of Mortgage...
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Markets await Ecofin meeting and hope Federal Reserve will throw another $45bn of electronic money at US economy Martin Farrer Nick Fletcher
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Sants to join after Financial Services Authority gardening leave is over and be responsible for bank's relationship with regulators Hector Sants, former boss of the Financial Services Authority, is joining Barclays in the newly created role of head of compliance and government and regulatory relations...
Employment minister Mark Hoban says latest figures are encouraging, but more work needs to be done to decrease jobless number
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Public sector pay roll shrinks to lowest level in a decade – but there are more private sector jobs than ever before, ONS says Unemployment in Britain fell by 82,000 in the three months to October as the private sector created jobs faster than they were being shed in the public sector, the Office for...