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Frugal Medicine: How ‘Cheap’ Medicine is Forging a New Path

Mark Wien
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
In the US, health care accounts for 17.9 percent of GDP spending, the highest of anywhere in the world. Who are some of the frugal medicine innovators and why are their technologies critically improving healthcare around the world? This slideshow provides a few examples of frugal medicine.

Funding the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Primer on Microfinance

Mark Wien
Economics, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
What does $50 mean to you? In the microfinance world, a $50 loan might mean the ability for a woman in rural Bangladesh to open a market grocer or a teenager in Kenya to build tech support for his poorly-wired community. Micro Equity specialist and current medical school student Mark Wien weighs in on his favorite Reads on the subject.

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