Recent Posts Tagged With 'india'

• Microfinance agenda for the new government: Open letter to the new Finance Minister of India - guest post by Mr. N Srinivasan

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 19:44 in india, microfinance, savings, policy, countries, finance minister, n srinivasan, microfinance law

  Readers may recollect, the previous interview with Mr. N.Srinivasan on microfinance in India. In the interview he had also suggested policy measures for the new government.. I am delighted to share with you, Mr.  N Srinivasan’s ‘ Microf...

• Launch of operations

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 02:07 in india, microfinance, events, hdfc, countries, launch, starting up, ajiwika

  I am pleased to announce the launch of operations with Ajiwika, a microfinance institution (MFI), and HDFC Bank as our partners in India.    It took us a year to sign the partnership agreement with HDFC Bank, but it is well worth it as HDFC lends t...

• Imagining India - Interview with Nandan Nilekani

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 16:55 in india, people, interviews, muhammad yunus, nandan nilekani, atul kulkarni, social business, time 100, andreas kopp, ashok parameswaran, imaginingindia, raj melville

  Bhalchander: It is my great pleasure and honor to have with us today Nandan Nilekani, author of the recently published book Imagining India – Ideas for the new century, and Co-Chairman and Co-founder of Infosys Technologies. Nandan’s work and acc...

• Everything you wanted to know about microfinance in India but did not know whom to ask - Interview with Mr. N Srinivasan

  Posted on Monday April 27th, 2009 at 14:54 in india, microfinance, interview, interviews, srinivasan

  Bhalchander: It is my great pleasure to have with us on email Mr. N Srinivasan, author of the ‘Microfinance in India: State of the Sector Report 2008’. The unabridged report is also available in several bookstores including amazon. Mr. N Srinivas...

• Poverty, collaboration and patience

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 23:04 in india, poverty, collaboration, hdfc, patience, partners, starting up, uc berkeley, cognizant, omm, hanson bridgett, microcredit enterprises

  Ever since I started working on United Prosperity, I have learned that progress in a startup happens in spurts. One is often faced with what seems like an insurmountable problem. You keep trying various things – nothing seems to work. Nobody seems ...

• Microfinance in India and the Global Financial Crisis

  Posted on Thursday January 29th, 2009 at 23:41 in india, microfinance, hdfc, countries, dell, unitus, fitch, basix, axis bank, global financial crisis, fwwb, accessdev

    My visit to India last month gave me a great opportunity to talk to people and get a first hand assessment of the impact of the global financial crisis on microcredit programs. Yesterday I also happened to read a recent Fitch ratings report on mic...