microfinance

Technology and development: A growing number of initiatives are promoting bottom-up ways to deliver energy to the world’s poor
Sep 2nd 2010
AROUND 1.5 billion people, or more than a fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity, and a billion more have only an unreliable and intermittent supply. Of the people without [...]

SKS Microfinance has risen by more than 30% on it’s issue price of Rs 985 .
The market capitalization of SKS Microfinance, India’s largest micro finance company which listed on the stock markets on the 16th August 2010 has crossed US$ 2 Billion in a short span of two week. The stock also made a [...]

Published: 31/08/2010 at 12:00 AM
Thailand Post offices nationwide could be transformed into microfinance centres as part of the government’s bid to extend financial services to lower-income groups, said Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij.
The postal service’s 1,200 branches and tens of thousands of staff nationwide could serve as a broad distribution channel for [...]

Namrata Acharya / Kolkata August 31, 2010, 0:55 IST
It was merely a coincidence that the year after C K Prahalad’s bestseller, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (2004), that Vikram Akula returned to SKS Microfinance, leaving a consultancy job at McKinsey & Company in Chicago [...]