by Microfinance Business on February 18, 2010

Esther Duflo, MIT economist and co-founder of the Poverty Action Lab, asks why the world’s poorest people tend to stay poor.
Duflo’s pioneering research applies randomized trials, used extensively in drug discovery research, to development economics. What she discovers are strategies for transforming current approaches to development policy.
In July 2009 Prof. Esther Duflo had presented her [...]
by Microfinance Business on September 3, 2009

Small Fortunes is a one-hour documentary describing the impact that microcredit is having throughout the world through the stories of eleven microentrepreneurs.It premiered on October the 27th, 2005 in the US and has been made by PBS
Produced by award-winning filmmakers Sterling Van Wagenen and Matt Whitaker, Small Fortunes explores the issues of poverty and microcredit [...]
by Microfinance Business on July 27, 2009

BASIX is a new generation livelihood promotion institution established in 1996 in India. It is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Vijay Mahajan (born 1 October, 1954) is an Indian social entrepreneur and chairman of BASIX, a group he founded in 1996.
Today, BASIX has supported the livelihoods of over a million rural poor households, of which [...]
by Microfinance Business on June 1, 2009

As skeptics argue about the lack of evidence proving the tangible effects of microfinance, and investors demand construction of exhaustive metrics to prove its impact, a set of changemakers belonging to a school of thought that sees impact beyond measurement quietly go about their work. Ela Bhatt, Founder of the Self Employed Women’’s Association (SEWA) [...]
by Microfinance Business on May 3, 2009

Interview with Pamela Champagne on why process mapping is important to MFI’s ?
and how one should go about it..
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by Microfinance Business on April 7, 2009

Microfinance Podcast 1 – Group Formation Process
Microfinance Podcast 2 – Compulsary Group Training Process
Microfinance Podcast 3 – Group Recognition Test
Microfinance Podcast 4 – Disbursement Process
Microfinance Podcast 5 – Loan Utilization Check Process
Microfinance Podcast 6 – Loan Collection Process
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by Microfinance Business on April 5, 2009

Microfinance Podcast 1 – Group Formation Process
Microfinance Podcast 2 - Compulsary Group Training Process
Microfinance Podcast 3 – Group Recognition Test
Microfinance Podcast 4 – Disbursement Process
Microfinance Podcast 5 - Loan Utilization Check Process
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by Microfinance Business on April 3, 2009

Microfinance Podcast 1 – Group Formation Process
Microfinance Podcast 2 - Compulsary Group Training Process
Microfinance Podcast 3 – Group Recognition Test
Microfinance Podcast 4 – Disbursement Process
Link To Video
by Microfinance Business on March 30, 2009

Microfinance Podcast 1 – Group Formation Process
Microfinance Podcast 2 - Compulsary Group Training Process
This 3rd part in this series can be found below
Microfinance Podcast 3 – Group Recognition Test
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by Microfinance Business on March 23, 2009

After the formation of a group the next stage is the
compulsary group training process.
This is Part 2 and Microfinance Podcast Part 1 can
be accessed here
Microfinance Podcast 2 - Compulsary Group Training Process
Joint Liability Group Methodology.
Spandana, India.
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by Microfinance Business on March 22, 2009

Joint Liability Group. Spandana, India.
The video we posted about last week about Microfinance
Deliquency management process was a part of the bigger
series on JLG lending made by Microsave
Given Below is the first part of the series
on Joint Liablity Group …
There are a total of 6-7 videos in this series and we
will post them all in the [...]
by Microfinance Business on March 18, 2009

Microfinance Podcast 2 – Compulsary Group Training Process
Microfinance Podcast 3 – Group Recognition Test
Microfinance Podcast 4 – Disbursement Process
Microfinance Podcast 5 – Loan Utilization Check Process
Microfinance Podcast 6 – Loan Collection Process
Microfinance Podcast 7 – Delinquency Management Process
Link to Video