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India spends only about 1 percent of its GDP on public health, that faces a shortage of hospitals and doctors, among the world’s lowest, and the health ministry estimates such funding leads to “catastrophic” expenses that push 7 percent of the population into poverty each year....

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Ayushman Bharat to cover 2L families in Vadodara district

The Times of India 24 Sep 2018

Vadodara ... Ayushman Bharat provides a coverage of Rs five lakh per family. The health ministry has included 1,354 packages in the scheme, which is touted to be world’s largest government-funded healthcare programme ... Ayushman cards were distributed to the beneficiaries during the function. The scheme will be funded with 60% contribution coming from the Centre and remaining from the state ... Musli King. 15 most beautiful women in the world ... or....

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High Notes: Fighting AIDS, diabetes and epilepsy; stocking food bank

The Daily Gazette 24 Sep 2018

More than just a fund-raiser, the Ride to Cure Diabetes brings riders from all over the world to make friends and share in the camaraderie of working for such a worthy cause ... Riders could choose to bike 25, 60 or 100 miles around the Saratoga Springs area ... Funds from the runs -- of which there are six around the country this year -- will go toward fighting Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes ... ....

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India launches world’s largest state-run healthcare program

News India Times 24 Sep 2018

Deemed as the “world’s largest government funded healthcare programme”, targeting more than 50 crore beneficiaries, the scheme will provide a cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year, for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of Empanelled Health Care Providers (EHCP) ... a model for the world to follow....

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Yen climbs as China halts trade talks with U.S.; oil rallies

This is Money 24 Sep 2018

By Swati Pandey ... Most of the action was in currencies as financial markets in Japan, China and South Korea were closed for a holiday ... The intensifying dispute between the world's two biggest economies has spooked financial markets. The Japanese yen, which sees fund inflows during times of crisis, ticked up to 112.5 per dollar while the trade-sensitive Australian dollar slipped from a 3-1/2 week top to $0.7274 ... BREXIT AND FED ... ....

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World Bank says no to funding AC trains; MRVC sees no huge problem

The Times of India 23 Sep 2018

While the World Bank representatives were not available to explain the decision to not fund AC trains, MRVC officials, who did not wish to be quoted, said there was disagreement over whether the trains should be bought outright or leased ... Under MUTP-III, 47 air-conditioned rakes of 12 cars each are to be procured at a total estimated cost of Rs 3,491 crore, of which, funding of Rs 1,300 crore was to be provided by the World Bank....

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US taps Lerrick as IMF acting executive director

The News International 23 Sep 2018

Lerrick, a proponent of reforms at the IMF and World Bank, was one of the authors of a 1990s report led by the late economist Allan Meltzer that called for the International Monetary Fund to focus on short-term responses to crisis rather than multi-year bailout, the newspaper said ... Lerrick, a proponent of reforms at the IMF and World Bank, was one ......

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World Bank says no to funding AC trains

The Times of India 23 Sep 2018

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google join fight to prevent famine

This is Money 23 Sep 2018

Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many have already died, the tech firms, including Amazon, "will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding" to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and UN announced ... to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and United Nations announced in a joint statement....

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NM Tech loans out seismographs

Albuquerque Journal 23 Sep 2018

It’s the facility that provides instrumentation for the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and other funded seismological experiments around the world. From Alaska to Antarctica to the outer reaches of Inner Mongolia, instruments shipped from PASSCAL can be found measuring earthshaking events virtually all over the world ... He said their polar teams get support and funding through the Office of Polar Programs....

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FATF to Set International Standards to Stop Use of Bitcoin for Terrorism Funding

Zycrypto 23 Sep 2018

In a bid to deal with the use of Bitcoin to fund terrorist regimes around the world, the United States’ Financial Action Task Force is set to come up with standards that will help to stop the use of the digital asset to fund such activities ... The new standards to be set by the FATF are specifically aimed at combating terrorism around the world especially in Syria....

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U.S. students spend more time working paid jobs than going to class

Philadelphia Daily News 23 Sep 2018

The United States spends more per college student than nearly every country in the world, according to a September report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ... American students are also responsible for funding a larger portion of their expenses than students elsewhere in the world ... That leaves a funding gap of more than $80,000....

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Coalition recycles old nonsense with business-as-usual schools deal

The Observer 23 Sep 2018

The prime minister’s announcement of an extra $4.6bn in funding over the next decade for private schools makes no sense ... To engage in the schools funding policy arena in this country requires the ability to suspend disbelief ... Will Scott Morrison's $4.6bn package end the school funding wars? – explainer ... This funding scheme is better described as “entitlement-based augmented by need”....

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