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