S K Sinha

S K Sinha was the Secretary of SafeSave. He has also been Stuart Rutherford’s assistant and worked together with him in numerous consultancies.

S K Sinha was the Secretary of SafeSave, a savings based cooperative that provided financial services to people in the low-income areas of Dhaka. He has also been Stuart Rutherford’s assistant and worked together with him in numerous consultancies.

Posts by S K Sinha

Managing Growth of Microfinance Institutions: ASA Bangladesh – Single-minded growth

This paper reviews the difficulties faced by rapidly-growing MFIs and examine how they can be addressed. It aims to provide nascent MFIs with an understanding of the problems they are likely to face and the solutions they might try.

GRAMEEN II – At the end of 2003 – A ‘grounded view’ of how Grameen’s new initiative is progressing in the villages

This paper in a nutshell outlines what Grameen II is and how it works. It discusses the similarities between old and new Grameen, in respect of the delivery environment, group responsibilities, branch opening procedures, loan loss provisioning and write-off, staff performance incentives, and computerisation. It comments on branch performance and concludes that Grameen II is […]

Innovative Approaches to Delivering Microfinance Services: The Case of VSSU, West Bengal

This report reviews the work of VSSU, a MFI in West Bengal and attempts to assess the opportunities and constraints of VSSU’s services and to their replication elsewhere