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From the Acumen Fund Blog a report on an event conducted by NYU Financial Access where Nachiket Mor delivered a Lecture Revolutionizing Financial Services in Rural India Last night, along with 150 or so others, I sat in rapt attention while Nachiket described his latest thinking on banking at the base of the pyramid in [...]
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Shrot – Ek Jhalak – Volume 1 – April 2009 View more documents from indiamicrofinance. Download Right Click and choose ”Save Target As ” or “Save Link As” Shrot – Volume 1 Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services in Uttarakhand After its successful launch in Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, in June 2008, IFMR Trust’s Kshetriya Gramin Financial [...]
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Our correspondent finds doubts raised about the effectiveness of one of the big ideas in the fight against poverty The statistics make mightily impressive reading: microfinance is worth a dizzying $6.5 billion; its ten largest funds grew at an equally impressive 32 per cent last year alone. It is, according to a report published yesterday, [...]
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The other day I happened to pass through Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh on my way to Haridwar. Seeing some farmers harvesting wheat, I decided to break my journey and spend some time with them. They were obviously busy and didn’t want to be disturbed, but when I introduced myself one of them walked upto me, touched [...]
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I thought the deciphering of the genetic make-up of a cow or what is scientifically called as genome should be a big news in the land of holy cows. But no, I was wrong. The news is tucked away in some corner of the newspapers, and the electronic media didn’t find it worth a mention. [...]
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Somebody asked me the other day: “How come you write about food and so does senior journalist Vir Sanghvi; but while he is published widely and travels in style dining at some of the most expensive hotels all over the word, gets to drink some of the finest wines, and is the darling of the [...]
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If you recall a few days back I had said (in one of my blogs) that you cannot aspire to become a director of an agricultural research institute or a vice-chancellor of a agricultural university in India unless you swear by genetic engineering. Well, we have a new director for the premier New Delhi-based Indian [...]
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The news from Geneva is disturbing. If you read Meena Raman’s dispatch below, you will understand what I mean.I am not surprised at the doings and undoings of Mr Pascal Lamy. As WTO director general he has already inflicted a lot of damage to developing country farmers. He job has been to unabashedly promote the [...]
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‘Micro-finance most cost-effective, efficient way of reducing poverty’ Washington-based Micro-credit Summit Campaign strives to coordinate amongst and give directional inputs to the micro-finance institutions and self-help groups across the world. Micro-credit to the poor is becoming less and less donor-driven. A large part of the micro-finance resources now comes from the savings of self-help groups. [...]
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April 21, 2009 (LBO) – Low transaction costs and timely delivery is critical for micro-finance to be effective in lifting poor people out of poverty, a senior Sri Lankan central bank official said. “Experience tells us that micro-finance alone is not enough to eliminate poverty because it only satisfies the funding needs of micro enterprises,” [...]
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Academic Expat Series. We speak to Gautam Gandhi originally from New Jersey, USA. Gandhi came to India on the Fulbright Scholarship last year to study the entrepreneurship process in India. He now lives and works in New Delhi. Click on link below to listen to the audio podcast Gautam Gandhi interview about entrepreneurship In this [...]
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I am sure many of you would have wondered why the newspapers are suddenly talking about the environment — global warming, rivers drying up, Olive Ridley turtles, coming water wars of the future — and so on, and that too in the midst of the heat and dust of the election campaigns. Well, it took [...]
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Ten years from now when the G-8 Farm Ministers will meet in 2119 for their annual sojourn — Agriculture Ministers Summit — somewhere in Timbaktoo or in Doha or in the Chilean highlands, the main agenda will be to place a wreath at the tomb of the farmer.The last surviving farmer or a group of [...]
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