There are some non-industry organizations that have made massive strides in pharmaceutical transparency, such as the Access to Medicines Index, funded by the Gates Foundation.

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What they will find is a richer experience that offers granular insight into fitness, sleep and food patterns, a real-time updating social feed, a dynamic emoticon, usage insights and access to a searchable caloric index.

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The index combines five measures: available resources, access to water, people's capacity to afford and organise water supplies, use of water for domestic, industrial and environmental purposes, and environmental management.

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Vernon Sumnicht, chief executive of iSectors, says the hedge-fund index was always the internal benchmark for the Liquid Alternatives model, but that the firm that reports iSectors' returns to advisers and clients wasn't able to obtain full access to the hedge-fund index data until recently.

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Human Development Index and Electricity ConsumptionRoughly 400 million Indians remain without access to power.

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The resultant index of census records and images will then be published state by state with free access for all.

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