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Beauty as Business: Research on women entrepreneurs in India
Women’s World Banking conducted market research in North and South India to support the expansion of an individual lending program. Their goal was to understand the financial needs of micro-entrepreneurs and identify how individual loans could help them reach their business goals. In this post, they discuss the findings from one particularly promising business sector: beauty parlors.
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Why Micro-Lending Needs A Vision Lift
For most people, the term ‘micro-lending’ connotes lending micro amounts of money to low-income people to help them build a micro-business. When entrepreneurs achieve these modest goals, everyone heaves a sigh of relief. Is this a case of being satisfied with modest goals, i.e. aim low and settle for little?
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New Micro Lending Program to Pump Cash into Detroit
Amid the Motor City’s ongoing bankruptcy eligibility trial, the launch of a new lending program is likely welcomed news for Detroit small businesses.
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Premal Shah: Loans That Change Lives
An interview with former PayPal product manager Premal Shah, who today heads Kiva, a global microfinance organization.
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SKS Microfinance poised to make a clean break from the past
If Vikram Akula, the disgraced founder of SKS Microfinance, is attempting a back-door entry into the company, then something in it is attractive again.
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Micro-finance: the fuel or fall of entrepreneurship in emerging markets?
The advent of micro-finance has ignited hopes that micro-entrepreneurs would now have one less obstacle in their way.
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Happy World Savings Day: Here are 10 microsavings lessons to help you celebrate today’s other holiday
As you probably know, October 31st is Halloween. But you might not know that it’s also World Savings Day - and this year, the event coincides with the end of a 4-year microsavings project at Grameen Foundation. The project has helped create 850,000 new active savings accounts throughout India, the Philippines and Ethiopia. Grameen Foundation’s Kimberly Davies shares the biggest learnings to come out of the project.
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Citi’s CEO talks of bank’s microfinance initiatives
Citigroup has long had a major position in emerging markets including in South America, Asia and Africa, and at an event in London CEO Mike Corbat discussed the bank’s efforts in microfinance.
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