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Business News > Mint Authors > Ashok Alexander

Ashok Alexander

ARTICLES BY ASHOK ALEXANDER

How we compare country-level performance, identify issues that cut across, and respond to them is the charter of what is called ‘global health’. Photo: Madhy Kapparath.

India needs a better report card to meet SDG targets on healthcare

3 min read . 01 Aug 2018

India’s total fertility rate (TFR) has more than halved over the last four decades to 2.2 in 2015-16.

How India can sustain progress in family planning

3 min read . 24 Jul 2018

Female literacy is one of the most powerful levers to improve a society’s health and economic well-being. Priyanka Parashar / Mint

Educating girls can improve India’s health outcomes

3 min read . 17 Jul 2018

A file photo of Bill Gates. Photo: Bloomberg

Switching the donor-grantee relationship

3 min read . 12 Jun 2018

Are the lessons from data use and community involvement from India’s amazing polio programme being systematically absorbed by others in the health sector —probably not. Photo: AFP

Knowledge is power

4 min read . 28 Feb 2018