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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 […]
August 31, 2012
EBBC and yourSRI collaborate to show potential for investing in biodiversity conservation
EBBC (European Business and Biodiversity Campaign) and yourSRI, one of the leading online directories of investments for sustainability have partnered in a collaborative effort to show the private sector the importance of biodiversity protection, and to motivate them to invest in the same. Read more here.
August 31, 2012
Financing business skills for Impact Enterprises
One of the main barriers in the impact investment field is the lack of core business skills in social enterprises which want to scale. This prevents impact investors from investing as well. This gap is filled by business development skills incubators and accelerators. Read more here.
August 31, 2012
Inspired by the Olympics
In this post, the author compares how the costs of each medal in the Olympics, for different kinds of sports respectively, impact investment and socially responsible investing has companies, investors and other stakeholders demanding in numerical amounts the impact of their investments, for their respective philanthropic projects. Read more here.
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Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
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