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 –...
View ArticleMicrofinance 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleJSON support to Kiva .NET toolkit
JSON support for the Kiva .NET library Continue reading →
View ArticlePatch 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
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleStay 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...
View ArticleDemocratization 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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