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Newsweek reports on how microfinance is playing its part in the Haiti earthquake disaster relief.
A microlender was able to distribute cash in Haiti much more quickly than traditional banks.
How microcredit can play a larger role in disaster recovery.
Hollywood couldn’t have done it better. Late in the afternoon on Jan. 22, an armored car packed with [...]
Buoyed by the success rate of its microfinance business in the rural areas of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, L&T Finance, the financial services arm of Larsen & Toubro, is set to expand to Gujarat and Orissa over the next three months.
A team of microfinance professionals at L&T Retail Finance Group, which is [...]
The roundtable session on client protection was one of the many interesting sessions which took place during European Microfinance Week 2009.
http://www.e-mfp.eu/node/231
The much-waited Micro Finance Bill is likely to see the light of day during the upcoming Budget Session as the government is doing the groundwork to reintroduce it. “Micro finance is growing at a fast pace. However, it is neither regulated nor supervised. A Bill will give more legitimacy to the sector. We are trying [...]
Need for the right operational processes and the right skills for the human resources in the right is clearly highlighted in this study from ReliefWeb
The microfinance sector in Afghanistan is going through a period of reform. This is due largely to the consequences of an early emphasis on rapidly achieving operational sustainability through growth in client numbers [...]
The survey is the first initiative of Unitus’s newly launched MFI Industry Compensation & Benefits Forum, an endeavor to bring a better understanding of remuneration issues and practices in microfinance to the industry.
For more information, contact
Gazal Vishwanath
gvishwanath@unitus.com
+91 998 669 0777
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 [...]
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.
Click link to read full post
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 [...]
A concept that Microfinance Training Academy has pioneered in the microfinance space – Organizations should hire trained employees, rather than untrained ones. While seemingly obvious, the sector could not pursue this track as there were no providers available offering this service.
The responses we had from most of the stakeholders we met at the Microfinance India [...]