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Spay India launches a phygital platform to serve the banking needs of low-
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI/PNN): Spay India, a fintech company, has launched a new platform to empower rural banking. This platform will serve the needs of the lower-income groups in rural areas.
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Study on interventions that may improve girls' education in low and middle
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): A new study has summarised evidence from 82 studies from low- and middle-income countries to identify programs that may help to improve girls' education outcomes and narrow gender disparities.
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Covaxin 'extremely suitable' for low, middle-income countries due to easy
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 3 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Covaxin -- COVID-19 vaccine developed by Bharata Biotech -- is extremely suitable for low and middle-income countries due to easy storage requirements.
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Climate change: Pakistan faces existential crisis
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 14 (ANI): As per the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report of August 2021, Pakistan is facing an existential crisis.
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World Bank chief highlights 'tragic reversal' in development amid pandemic
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 14 (ANI/Xinhua): World Bank Group President David Malpass said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing up poverty and debt levels in low-income countries, highlighting a "tragic reversal" in development.
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WHO set to vaccinate 40 pc population of every country against COVID-19 by
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 8 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday announced an initiative to vaccinate 40 per cent of the population of every country against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 and 70 per cent by mid-2022, by prioritising vaccine delivery to low-income
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People with low income saw smallest drop in travel during COVID-19: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Columbus (Ohio) [US], October 5 (ANI): A recent case study in Columbus suggests that low-income people were the least likely to reduce their local travel during the COVID-19 lockdown, probably because they still had to go to work.
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WWB, Bank of Baroda report recommends 'Jan Dhan Plus' to catalyse formal s
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): Public sector banks can attract about Rs 25,000 crore in deposits by serving 100 million low-income women while financially empowering 40 crore Indians, according to a new report published jointly by Bank of Baroda and global non-profit organisation Women'
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National Health Authority, IIT Delhi join hands to scale up healthcare inn
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], August 12 (ANI): The National Health Authority (NHA) and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have joined hands to scale up high-potential healthcare innovations which will support innovators and entrepreneurs in improving the healthcare facility of the country.
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Grameen Foundation India launches Tech4Inclusion challenge for tech startu
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, (Delhi) [India], August 9 (ANI/News Voir): Grameen Foundation India (GFI) recently launched the challenge for augmented reality-based solutions to advance financial literacy and inclusion. The challenge invites technology startups working on cutting edge augmented reality/virtual
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Tackling income inequality might boost vocabulary of low-income children
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 25 (ANI): Parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the vocabulary gap between low-income children and their more affluent peers. Now new research implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place, which in other words means the wealth gap.
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EU is donating more than 200 million vaccines by end of year
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium] July 23 (ANI/FENA): The European Union announced on Thursday that it will donate more than 200 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 to countries with average and low incomes before the end of this year.
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