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Indian Healthcare To Touch $280 Bn By 2020, To Create 7.4 Million Jobs.

India’s healthcare industry, which is estimated to grow by at least 16 per cent from $73.92 billion in 2011 to $280 billion in 2020, will see its workforce demand dou...

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Sustainable Development

A Card That Gives Migrant Workers A Name

Almost every day, Pannalal Meghwal parks his scooter on the edge of the informal work hubs c...

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Gender

Why Incentive Pay Makes The Gender Gap Worse?

The persistence of a gender gap in wages is shaping the debate over women’s equality in the workplace and underscores the challenge facing policymakers as they consid...

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Gender

Women Face Widespread Job Restrictions In India: World Bank

Women in India are not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass, according to a latest World Bank r...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Trending

Life After Content Blocking

Ad blocking started as an initiative by independent developers who wanted to improve our browsing experience. Now that at least one company, Apple, has made Content Blockin...

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Festivals

Danny Boyle confirms Trainspotting sequel at Telluride film festival

Promoting new movie Steve Jobs, the director says followup to 1996 tale of Edinburgh heroin addicts will be his next project.
Danny Boyle has confirmed plans for a Tra...

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Gender

Twitter Promises To Hire More Women While Fighting Gender Discrimination Suit

Twitter is setting modest goals to diversify its workforce while it fights a proposed class-action lawsuit that says the online messaging service discriminates against its ...

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Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Goal 8: Promote Inclusive Economic Growth.

This story first appeared on the blog of Corporate Citizenship, a global business consultancy specializing in sustainability and corporate responsibility. Its series of art...

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Festivals

Michael Fassbender’s ‘Steve Jobs’ To Close London Film Festival

Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs,” which stars Michael Fassbender, will close the 59th BFI London Film Festival. The event runs Oct. 7-18. Aaron Sorkin wrote the...

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