Microfinance Organizations In India
The D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution
Why wait for governments or established charities when you can start an NGO in your basement?
CNBC WHAT’S HOT: SHOULD MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS BE FOR-PROFIT?
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits $14.99 The world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world’s billions of poor people have immense untapped buying power. They represent an enormous opportunity for companies who learn how to serve them. Not only can it be done, it is being done–very profitably. What’s more, companies aren’t just making money: by servin… |
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A Fistful of Rice: My Unexpected Quest to End Poverty Through Profitability $10.20 Around the globe, poverty has held too many people in its grip for too long. While microfinance – small loans to impoverished individuals – initially attracted attention in the press, it didn’t achieve the scale, scope, and profitability necessary to substantially combat poverty. All that changed with Vikram Akula’s creation of SKS Microfinance.In this highly personal narrative, A Fistful of Rice,… |
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Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad $8.31 Micro-credit, or the making available of small amounts of credit to the poor, is seen as a vital tool for poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment in developing societies. This volume examines micro-credit interventions made in India and provides valuable insights into: the role of social mobilization in reducing poverty; the working of community banking programmes at the village level; the eff… |