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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Ethical investment leads to more loyal advice clients

Financial advisors stand to gain more from ethical investors as they make for more loyal clients than other normal investors. According to general manager of Premium Wealth Solutions, Paul Harding Davis, responsible investors were more likely to stay on with their advisors for longer and were also more likely to […]

September 10, 2012

India: UP to employ Robinhood healthcare delivery model

In the Indian state of UP, or Uttar Pradesh, healthcare will now be provided using a Robinhood model. PPP (public-private-partnership) will be employed in the NRHM (National Rural Health Mission) scheme. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Kenya: MFI offers cheap healthcare microinsurance for a family of 5

SISDO microfinance, a microfinance company operational in Kenya is offering an inexpensive medical insurance package which covers a family of up to 5, giving them access to a comprehensive health cover. SISDO traditionally focuses on smallholder farmers and their irrigation needs, but in this venture is offering microinsurance at Sh […]

September 10, 2012

Waiting on the cheesecake hospital chains

In the US, the healthcare costs are soaring, while services remain mediocre and quality unreliable. This post compares how the chain of restaurants, ‘Cheesecake Factory’ are successful despite offering high quality products at low costs, and how the potential to integrate these principles in the healthcare sector remain high, but […]

September 10, 2012

Poor Kenyans pay a high cost for healthcare

‘Complex, dysfunctional’ issues regarding healthcare in rural areas in Kenya are often not mentioned in reports. Healthcare in rural Kenya, as in the case of many of the developing countries’ rural areas as well, is ‘seasonal and unpredictable as the rains’. Before care can be provided on a sustained basis, […]

September 10, 2012

Child mortality in Yemen exacerbated by poor healthcare

A lack of healthcare facilities has led to a sharply upward toll of child mortality in Yemen. Lack of facilities means that proper infant and maternity care is not being provided. Yemen, which is already facing a crippling food crisis, is further wrapped in troubles due to this. Read more […]

September 10, 2012

Healthcare Landscape, Outlook, and Growth Opportunities in Brazil

This report by the American market research group Frost & Sullivan examines the growth potential for the healthcare market in Brazil. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Antigua and Barbuda Health Systems and Private Sector Assessment 2011

This report by the SHOPS Project and Health Systems 20/20 assesses the potential for the involvement of the private sector into the healthcare services industry in Antigua and Barbuda. Read it here.

September 4, 2012

Ratan Tata about his philanthropic plans post retirement – “You haven’t seen anything yet”

Ratan Tata, the leader of Tata Group will be retiring from in December 2012. The time he took over the reins, the turnover of the Tata Group stood at US$5 billion. This year it is expected to exceed US$100 billion. A new Forbes India article researches deep into the social […]