Making eyeglasses accessible to the very poor: Creating a market in rural India

In rural India, several hundred million people need glasses to see properly, but low incomes and difficulty of access to prescriptions prevent them from doing so.  After identifying the demand and investigating the market with the assistance, in particular, of Indian hospitals, we designed a very lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Patrick Cherrier, Bhuvaraghan Jayanth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut Veolia Environnement 2009-10-01
Series:Field Actions Science Reports
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/355