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Srijan by Intellecap, is an annual competition for entrepreneurs that have an innovative plan to address the resource and infrastructure challenges faced by the microfinance sector. Srijan aims to foster entrepreneurship, invigorate the microfinance sector, uncover new approaches to development issues, and build an enabling environment for future entrepreneurs, as well as to create an [...]
MTA is pleased to announce the launch of operations in Madhya Pradesh. M.P. is seeing a rapid increase in new microfinance institutions launching operations. Other than national players expanding their operations, there is also many new MFIs that are starting up in the state.
MTA is now positioned to source, train and deploy resources in [...]
Sylvia Ann Hewlett in her blog at HBR, has an interesting post on what companies can do to rescue morale. She talks about 2 interesting partnerships between corporate America and organizations in the social sector.
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http://tinyurl.com/ygbwq9l
More power to Moody-Kiva and Pfizer-Grameen and let these begin many more such partnerships.
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This table ranks 104 countries, according to their overall abilities to foster the nine drivers of prosperity. It also provides the breakdown of the sub-index performances that lead to the overall rank.
http://www.prosperity.com/rankings.aspx
The Good – Great report with a very cool presentation format.
The Bad – India on 86th rank in the Education driver (defined as an [...]