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17th Feb 2009
How do we go from here?
I read Atanu Dey’s take onInnovation and Entrepreneurship in India in response to a question put forward by Sramana Mitra on her blog Why is the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India not coming together ...
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23rd Dec 2008
Back to the drawing board? — A harsh look at microfinance
To start, I want to say that my mind has been racing despite sleep deprivation and jet lag since I touched down in Mumbai at 0135 IST this morning. This is the first I have set foot in India since 200...
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16th Oct 2008
To Profit or Not to Profit
> According to Mr Chu, “to roll back poverty rather than to merely alleviate it”, any solution needs to be able to reach massive numbers, deliver permanent results that can help many generations, prov...
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1st Oct 2008
On Bailouts, Boons and Bill Clinton
So living in New York City has made it damn near impossible to not be wrapped up in the minute by minute saga that is the US financial crisis. Moreover, the fact that here at Stern Business School, ov...
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12th Sep 2008
And then there were a few
So, it looks as though many smaller MFIs will now become absorbed by the larger players as the microfinance sector is expected to enter into period of substantial consolidation within India. According...
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16th Aug 2008
Ceding the floor to the other side, even if just for a moment
> The greater point is that not all products and services are the same, and in some cases creating sustainable markets may be all but impossible. Though it is certainly not “ideologically attractive,”...
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31st Jul 2008
Is Urbanization Really The Answer?
Atanu Dey’s article and analysis on the Urbanization and Development of India lends itself to interesting opinions and conclusions on an important topic that encompasses many cross-cutting issues. Dey...
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1st Jul 2008
Stern words for climate change and development
Made famous by the epynomous report on climate change, Sir Nicholas Stern spoke recently on the need to reframe the climate change debate through the lens of development. He said that the two were tie...
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6th May 2008
TC-I Tidbits
Your daily dose of headlines:Mobile bank: HDFC plans to unveil its pilot mobile bank branch with an ATM aimed at microfinance clients. While the term mobile bank here differs from what we envision wit...
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23rd Apr 2008
MFIs tend to lose focus as they 'evolve'
A new report released by the Women’s World Banking (WWB) observes that as many microfinance institutions transform from non-profits to traditional financial intermediaries, they tend to shift away fro...
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9th Apr 2008
Obsessive Compulsive Metric Disorder
While my writings in the past have strongly pushed for the establishment of better metrics in quantifying social impact, the reliance on such metrics is not immune to negative outcomes. One such negat...
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26th Mar 2008
Op-Ed: Microfinance revisited and its role in reaching the missing middle
Two weeks ago I wrote about James Surowiecki’s article in the New Yorker that brought forward the inherent limitations of microfinance to actually generate a substantial number of jobs in a developing...
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