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Mobile Phones and Financial Inclusion
On the Gates Foundation’s site, there is a very interesting piece about phone banking and Africa, specifically about the “Global Savings Forum”. Technology can be a major force to advance financial...
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Cost based innovation at the bottom of the pyramid hits tablet PCs
It was more than a little interesting to hear that India unveiled the world’s cheapest tablet PC yesterday. The world’s cheapest tablet computer, on sale for as little as $35, has been unveiled in...
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Naandi Foundation providing safe drinking water to India’s poor
Today I’d like to highlight the amazing work of Naandi Foundation. Through the Naandi Safe Drinking Water project, thousands of poor people that had been living for generations with the devastating...
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Skateistan, helping a ravaged country by doing what others dare not.
Skateistan is an organisation well worth talking about, with an innovative approach to human development. After recently coming across the work of Ollie Perkovich and his team in Kabul, it is hard not...
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Khoombi and the brilliant simplicity of mushrooms!
Today I’d like to highlight a fantastic social business concept, Khoombi. This innovative start-up organisation is the brainchild of THINK micro’s very own Hasan Syed and his team in Pakistan. Here’s a...
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Regulation about to bite into the Indian micro-finance industry
It was recently announced a raft of new regulatory measures are to introduced in India during the winter session of Parlaiment. Key will be an enforced registration for all MFIs with the Reserve Bank...
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Introduction to Microfinance Part 1 of 5
Series Introduction Hello, and welcome to the first in a short series of articles that serve as an introduction to microfinance. These articles are for those who are interested in the field of...
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Introduction to Microfinance Part 3 of 5
Part 3 of 5 Welcome to the third in a short series of articles written as an introduction to microfinance. In this article, I will briefly discuss the origins of the microfinance movement, within the...
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Introduction to Microfinance Part 4 of 5
Part 4 of 5 Welcome to the fourth in a short series of articles written as an introduction to microfinance. In this article, I will briefly discuss my take on some of the ethical arguments that are...
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THINK micro meets Design Thinking to develop new social business concepts
At the end of Autumn semester 2012, a group of twenty-four students from across UTS faculties (including law, business, I.T, and design) with a sprinkling of Macquarie University and Sydney University...
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