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Of the 5 billion medical injections administered in India every year, 62 percent are unsafe – startling figure that brought Marc Koska, inventor of non reusable K1 syringes, to India
This is how the article starts –…
Here is a piece that I wrote for my school paper. While it is not focused on India specifically, I believe that the topic is relevant to every country.
Profits or Profiteering?: Why Companies Are Responsible for More
If a corporation’s responsibility…
A few weeks ago, Vinay wrote about the growing business opportunities in the e-governance sector. An exciting recent development in this area has been the announcement by the Government of India of knowledge kiosks being set up in Panchayats. The project is…
In the effort to connect “green” business manufacturers and suppliers, Jagdish Amin and David Wheat launched HaraBara in October 2008. Businessworld features the duo’s new business-to-business platform:
HaraBara’s primary objective is to unearth ‘golden nuggets’: companies that are doing great sustainable work, and…
Last night I had the good fortune of sitting in on a talk given by Nancy Barry, a pioneer in the field of creating private, market-based solutions to poverty alleviation for women across the globe. Her talk was very powerful…
An article in The Economic Times blames India’s water woes on human activity, as detailed in a report released by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham). The secretary-general of Assocham, D S Rawat, said:
India’s water crisis is predominantly a…
What happens when a law is passed in a vacuum? The answer: it doesn’t get implemented.
What happens when the government throws rules and regulations at people, without giving them the tools to apply them, or without developing enforcement mechanisms to…
In the latest edition of Pragati, the Indian National Interest Review, Ankit Rawal proposes a new approach to the public distribution of food and the use of microfinance institutions. Since the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India has its share of…
Using some of the more basic principles of physics, a grassroots inventor in Nigeria named Mohammed Bah Abba developed a way to refrigerate items simply by using two different sized clay pots. Malapati Sekhar on the Rural Development of India…
Education is an issue that is overtaking the Indian news in the past week with the court ruling on the OBC quota in the higher education system. However, primary education is also in dire need of attention. Supreme Court judges…
