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Origins of Rangde !

The video on YouTube talks about the origin of RangDe and the ideas that the founders had before they decided on micro-credit (RangDe doesn’t cover the gamut of micro-finance yet !). The founders –...

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Microfinance as a business

If the term Microfinance brings images of charity, of handouts; then think again. Could it be possible that a business be created around microfinance. After all, if banks and financial houses can make...

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Making agriculture viable in India

While reading this synopsis of the talk by Dr. B.D. Sharma on NgoPost, I came across an interesting point (which of course is the viewpoint of the OP of the post) His romanticism with the agrarian...

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Is it real P2P lending on Kiva?

The microfinance blogosphere was a little perturbed by the apparent misleading of Kiva about how the P2P lending works. Another story being the viability of microfinance; but more on this later. The...

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Is thinking by numbers the new way to be smart?

Most of the people who shop online are now used to the recommendations that they see on their page based on previous purchases. And this is not just purchases, recommendations for movies on Netflix is...

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JSON support to Kiva .NET toolkit

JSON support for the Kiva .NET library Continue reading →

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Patch for mifos accepted

So, my first patch to mifos got accepted and checked-in to the trunk. Yaaay . Acceptance test for MIFOS-2683 is part of the build ! Sound the bugles

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The Economics of Microfinance – a must read

Participating in the growth microfinance (even if it is not the commercial growth) is one thing, and knowing why one should do that is another. After all, one is bound to ask sooner or later, does this...

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Stay hungry, Stay Foolish

The title of the book was possibly inspired by the famous Steve Jobs Stanford University speech. I would have like to see a little more creativity in the title, instead of an insipid verbatim copy of...

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Democratization of book reading

Democratzation of the Internet. How many times have we heard of this expression. Quite a few times I would think. For example, Google helps small business get the visibility that they would not have...

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