Articles by Nitin Rao
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Wednesday
April 4
2007The “Other India”
In the context of fast and unequal growth in India’s economy, Outlook magazine released its special issue on its annual State of the Nation survey.Using India?s poorest district - Bolangir (Orissa) - as an example, the issue attempts to document how fast paced growth in an urban economy...
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Friday
March 23
2007Protecting the Poor: Microinsurance Compendium
"Last year, global insurance giant American International Group Inc.opened a garage-size office in this dusty town of about 50,000. Coming up soon here: a policy that insures a cow for a $10 annual premium. “ This opening in WSJ article “Insurers Seek Growth in Developing...
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Wednesday
March 14
2007Rural Innovators: Closer to the Ground
I take pleasure in introducing three gentlemen who exemplify the spirit of innovation in rural India. These innovators demonstrated their ideas at the Rural Innovators event at Engineer 2007 - the national level symposium of NITK Surathkal.Annasaheb Udgavi is a farmer from Sadalga village in...
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Wednesday
February 21
2007MFI Sponsored Financial Education
Most schools in developing economies do not offer any financial education. Those who do, offer it as an optional course. Those who do, like India’s CBSE offer an overview of financial markets and share capital.Last year alone, according to Business Today, more than 15 million Indians...
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Thursday
February 15
2007In Search of Emerging Markets Excellence
IFC, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group and international consultancy and think-tank SustainAbility are launching a major project to find out how companies in emerging-markets have attained investment-grade ratings, driven innovation and created new forms of value through good...
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Wednesday
February 14
2007WB Report: Doing Business in South Asia 2007
Doing business became easier in India and Pakistan in 2005-2006, according to a new regional report released yesterday by the World Bank and its private sector arm, IFC, entitled Doing Business in South Asia 2007. Doing Business in South Asia 2007 is the third report in a series of South Asia...
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Tuesday
February 13
2007Lijjat: Empowering Women, Everyday
This is the second post in a series of successful - even if offbeat - models in the Indian subcontinent. The first is here.In a number of initiatives aimed at the bottom of the pyramid, women ? in groups ? have been at the forefront.SKS Microfinance chooses to only target women because...
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Tuesday
January 30
2007India’s Dabbawalas Reinvent Themselves
It’s heartening to come across real stories of people, who are by no means rich or well educated, entering and supporting the market economy. In India’s financial capital of Mumbai, Dabbawalas, whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office...
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