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Microcredit is the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In developing countries especially, microcredit enables very poor people to engage in self-employment projects that generate income - Wikipedia

Friday, April 20, 2007

Two articles on Kiva

Microcredit: You Too Can Be A Banker by R.Siva

Anyone can lend a hand via Web. Supporters say loans transform lives of poor by Daniel Dale
Posted by Badri Seshadri at 10:20 AM
Labels: Kiva, Microcredit

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Indian Microfinance Organizations

  • Bellwether Fund
  • Grameen Koota
  • Samasta Microfinance
  • SEWA Bank
  • SHARE Microfin Ltd.
  • SKS Microfinance
  • Spandana

Links

  • Aavishkaar Goodwell - Private Equity
  • Aavishkaar Micro Venture Capital Fund
  • Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
  • Centre for Micro Finance, Chennai
  • Finding Solutions to Poverty
  • Grameen Bank
  • Improving Micro-credit programs
  • Indian School of Microfinance for Women
  • Kiva: Loans that change lives
  • Microcapital
  • Microcredit - Wikipedia
  • Microcredit and women
  • Microfinance Industry Exchange
  • Microfinance Insights - Quarterly Magazine
  • MicroPlace
  • Muhammad Yunus - Wikipedia
  • The WaterCredit Initiative
  • United Nations Development Program
  • Unitus

Blog Archive

  • ►  2009 (1)
    • ►  May (1)
      • Samasta Microfinance
  • ►  2008 (25)
    • ►  October (2)
      • Credit crunch, Microfinance etc.
      • India Post / NABARD credit disbursal
    • ►  July (4)
      • Don't make profits from micro finance - says Yunus...
      • Rangde.org - a Kiva.org type set up for India
      • Micro-finance growing the fastest in the East (Ind...
      • Pragati Gramodyog Sansthan (PGS) - helping bonded ...
    • ►  June (9)
      • The Economist article on profiting from the poor
      • Microcredit for slum dwellers in Delhi
      • Kiva vs Microplace
      • Micro-investment: Fabindia
      • Microcredit in Meghalaya
      • Bollywood film has micro-credit featured
      • Microfinance Q&A in The Guardian
      • LIC, state insurer to enlarge micro-insurance prog...
      • Loan waiver culture - The ET editorial
    • ►  May (2)
      • Microfinance and Sub-prime - from India Developmen...
      • Grama Vidiyal gets funding
    • ►  April (2)
      • Grameen Veolia Water partnership
      • Micro finance institutions in East India, Forbes L...
    • ►  March (3)
      • Reliance Capital foray into microfinance
      • The Independent: Microcredits go mobile in India.....
      • New Yorker article: What Microloans Miss
    • ►  February (3)
      • Interview with Vikram Akula, SKS Microfinance
      • SKS Microfinance gets third round of investment
      • Micro - housing loans
  • ▼  2007 (49)
    • ►  October (3)
      • Changes to Grameen Bank's structure
      • Microplace - Online microfinance
      • Grameen Bank goes to USA
    • ►  September (2)
      • Birla Sun Life to offer micro-insurance
      • Sex workers bank
    • ►  August (7)
      • Aavishkaar Goodwell gets money
      • Micro credit for Scheduled Tribes and Castes
      • Future of 'phone ladies' of Bangladesh
      • A profile of Kotalipara Development Society
      • Keya Sarkar: Hope and despair in micro-finance
      • Review of BANKER TO THE POOR
      • Business shouldn't be Govt. Business - Yunus
    • ►  May (9)
      • Out of Focus: KAS Foundation
      • Interview with Jayshree Vyas of SEWA
      • Unitus announces three partnerships in India
      • Solar power through micro credit
      • Would Grameen be the target of political parties?
      • Citibank to buy SKS loans
      • Indian Microfinance Bill not adequate
      • Yunus abandons political plans
      • Unitus $5 viral web campaign
    • ▼  April (8)
      • Story on SKS Microfinance
      • Tata Motors to provide Microfinance in Singur
      • Two articles on Kiva
      • Microcredit is a debt trap
      • Time Magazine article on Microcredit
      • Microfinance 2.0
      • How the poor manage to live...
      • Will microfinance wipe out poverty?
    • ►  March (9)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2006 (48)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (12)

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