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Hindustan Unilever Executive Director for Sales and Customer Development, Hemant Bakshi, outlines his thoughts on Indian’s growing rural market and the numerous...

In 2010, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) to bring about positive changes in sanitation and hygiene across the country and...

To help bolster employment in rural India, the Tamil Nadu government has developed the Rural Business Process Outsourcing Policy for 2010. The...

Recent research by market research firm TechSci Research has indicated that India’s rural markets will be the next “frontier” for consumer goods...

Recent research by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Amarthi Consulting has further emphasized the need for major advancements in India’s...

A New York Times article recently highlighted growing problems with inadequate housing and infrastructure in Indian cities. The influx of villagers moving...

FabIndia won an award for excellence in supply chain management at the 6th TiE Annual Retail Summit. The Indian retailer distributes hand...

Growing demand for organic food in India coupled with greater awareness and education has made a gradually increasing number of farmers prepare...

GE Healthcare’s research and development division in India recently designed and launched the MACi, a light-weight, battery-backed electrocardiogram (ECG) machine that will...

In seeking to promote organic farming in Gujarat, inmates in a Western Gujarati prison are being trained in organic cultivation including the...

A publication by the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C. has recently reported on the massive opportunity for financial...

Indian financial inclusion service provider, FINO (Financial Inclusion Network & Operations), has tied up with NCR Corporation, a global technology company, to...

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has planned to promote organic farming in Kerala through an initiative that will...

A recent Next Billion blog entry reports on UPna sapna, a program launched by the non-profit, Network for Enterprise Enhancement and Develop...

Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network has provided The Foundation for Ecological Security with a grant of $2.1 million to be disbursed over...

In efforts to increase its rural presence across India, U.S. headquartered Western Union, a money transfer services company, has partnered with Microfinance...

Insurance companies are developing a greater number of options for rural Indian and low-income customers. Leveraging grassroots representatives such as a milk...

Recent New York Times Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman on a potentially large opportunity for mobile banking in India. Friedman sites Delhi based...

With inadequate energy infrastructure and an unreliable energy supply even to areas that are connected to the power grid, clean energy companies...

A study completed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Centre for Development Finance at the Institute for Financial Management and...

Azim Premji, the Chairman of Wipro, is donating $2 billion to the Azim Premji Trust, which will channel funds to educational and...

Indian mobile-phone company, Bharti-Airtel, has projected rapid growth in sales of its satellite TVs in rural India. It hopes to leverage its...

Japanese companies are beginning to have more of a focus on people within lower income levels in emerging markets. Recently, Japanese company,...

U.S. Fortune 500 consumer goods company, Proctor & Gamble Co., has started production and distribution of The Gillete Guard, a low-cost razor,...

A new initiative aimed at helping to connect rural Indian artisans with an actual market for their products has recently attracted more...

Mansukh Jagani, from Gujarat was named one of India’s seven most powerful rural Indians by Boston-based Forbes magazine. Jagani first developed the...

BBC photographs depict how Indian non-profit International Development Enterprises (IDEI) distributes affordable, eco-friendly irrigation equipment that helps small-scale Indian farmers sustain two...