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Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

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Maternal Health Scheme Comes To A Standstill

All is not well in the maternal health front in Karnataka.After sorting out issues with distribution of Madilu kits for nursing mothers and Thayi cards for expectant mother...

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2016 College Women Of The Year: Suhani Jalota

In India, where I grew up, menstruation is considered impure, and even saying the word period is taboo. It's hard to imagine. I wanted to chip away at that stigma, but how ...

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Kishore Fights Poverty And Polio To Become A Leading Gym Instructor

A dynamic and highly energetic gym trainer, V. M. Kishore Kumar personifies the example of victory over nature’s predicament. Read the story of how this young man wor...

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Without Universal Health Coverage, World Health Day Means Little To Most Of India

How far will you go to save your child or parents? To poverty and beyond, is what many thousand Indians are doing each day. The draft National Health Policy 2015 mentioned ...

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To End Global Poverty Put Science At The Heart Of Development

We want to end extreme poverty.If you’re reading this, we’re pretty sure that you do as well. You will probably already know about the enormous progress being m...

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Newly Disability Definition To Be Widened

The government is set to widen the definition of "disability" to bring the count of physically challenged persons in sync with the ground situation, heeding complaints that...

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Stars Sign Letter Urging Leaders To Tackle Poverty By Addressing Gender Inequality

Sir Elton John was one of the more than 70 celebrities who urged world leaders to tackle poverty by addressing gender inequality, adding his name to an open letter to gover...

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What A Little Land Can Do?

The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the b...

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Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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