The first microloans were made to women in rural Bangladesh in the 1970s. Banesa Khatun (far left) here in 2006, was still using Grameen Bank 30 years later.
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Quanda Zhang, RMIT University
A new study finds that giving small loans to very poor people reduces both the incidence and depth of poverty in the developing world.
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Information technology-related services have been the growth engine of India’s exports.
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Deeparghya Mukherjee, National University of Singapore
India needs to improve connectivity infrastructure and industrial laws to raise its ranking in world trade.
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A lot of Indian banks get involved in education programs.
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Ameeta Jain, Deakin University; Sandeep Gopalan, Deakin University
India has gone further than any other country in legislating for corporate social responsibility. But the law should be redrafted to enhance precision and stakeholder orientation.
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An early prototype of the IBM Watson cognitive computing system in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was originally the size of a master bedroom in 2011.
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Nafis Alam, Sunway University; Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham
Banks are relying more and more on robots that perform financial services.
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