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100 million women per year will need to adopt mobile internet to close the
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 31: Over 800 million women will need to adopt mobile internet in order to close the digital gender gap by 2030 across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to the latest Mobile Gender Gap Report published by the GSMA today.
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Odisha approves new housing scheme 'Mo Ghara' for rural dwellers
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Odisha government on Monday approved a new housing scheme called 'MO GHARA' ('My Home' in the local language) where the state government will provide financial assistance to lower and lower-middle-income households in rural areas.
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Kerala CM releases progress report of LDF government
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The chief minister pointed out that the government's goal is to raise the standard of living in Kerala to the level of middle-income countries in the developed countries of the world in the next 25 years.
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"Democracies can deliver...": Biden on strengthening low-middle-income cou
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
United States President Joe Biden, on Saturday, said that all democratic nations can deliver opportunities and prosperity to strengthen infrastructure in low-middle-income countries.
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The Future of Healthcare Financing: How Medfin is Disrupting Traditional M
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 18 (ANI/BusinessWire India): 55 Million Indians were forced into poverty due to the costs of medical care (according to a study from the Public Health Foundation of India). Access to affordable healthcare is a fundamental need for everyone, but unfortunatel
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WHO releases largest global collection of health inequality data
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The data from the repository showed that, in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries has nearly halved. They also reveal that, in these countries, eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mo
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Japan, India to organise Sri Lanka creditors' meeting
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The setup could serve as a precedent for solving middle-income nations' debt problems, exacerbated in part by higher interest rates in the US and Europe.
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Four million people will fall below the poverty line in Pakistan in FY23,
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The World Bank has forecast about four million people falling below the lower middle-income poverty line amid economic growth plummeting to just 0.4 per cent against a budgeted target of 5pc
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Novo Nordisk Foundation to support crucial education of health professiona
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], April 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): The global shortage of qualified health professionals is an increasing challenge. According to the WHO, an additional 10 million health professionals will be needed by 2030. The demand is particularly acute in low- and middle-income countries,
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On World Birth Defects Day, WHO reaffirms commitment to prevent, control b
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Globally, an estimated 8 million newborns are born with a birth defect every year. Nine out of every ten children born with a serious birth defect are in low- and middle-income countries. The most common severe birth defects are heart defects, neural tube defects and Down syndrome, but there
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India hospital network launched to initiate life-saving colon cancer trial
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): Cancer surgery experts today launched a network of hospitals across India to support a country-wide clinical trial exploring how giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back. Led by expert
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Research shows how high infant mortality rates contributing to rise of glo
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Arguments for expanding access to family planning and contraception in low- and middle-income countries are supported by recent studies indicating that high infant mortality rates contribute to the unceasing expansion in the world's population.
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