Posts Tagged ‘Microfinance India Summit 2009’

By Naagesh Naaraayana Microfinance Focus, Oct. 27, 2009: Will the business correspondent model work to bring the poor in remote areas of the country into the ambit of financial inclusion? First, the experiment with the no-frills accounts which the country's central bank RBI has pushed ahead faced failure. Now the BC model, which has the ability to serve the poor in rural and remote areas, has no inherent ... Full story

Microfinance Focus , Oct. 10, 2009: Microfinance Focus has launched a liveblog (www.microfinancefocus.com/liveblog) on its website to provide news and discussions from the Microfinance India Summit to be held in New Delhi from Oct. 26 to 28, 2009. As official media partner of the summit, Microfinance Focus will disseminate information including instant news ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 29, 2009: Dutch Princess Maxima will address the Microfinance India Summit being organised by ACCESS Development Services from Oct. 26 to 28 in New Delhi. Princess Maxima is the UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance. She was earlier involved in the Advisors Group to the International Year of ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 2, 2009: New Delhi-based ACCESS Development Services and Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon are jointly launching the ‘Sitaram Rao Livelihoods India Case Study Competition’ in memory of Mr. Sitaram Rao, the mentor and guru of the Indian Microfinance and Livelihoods movement who recently passed away. The competition aims to document motivating case studies to increase awareness on the livelihoods sector. The participants will ... Full story