Theme: Financial inclusion
M-Banking Tameer Pakistan
In this video, Ali Abbas Sikander, Group Executive Director, TAMEER, Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Pakistan, talks about the challenges TAMEER faced as a nascent player in branchless banking and how their m-banking business model works. He says as an early player TAMEER faced liquidity problem. To overcome this issue, they worked with CGAP and came […]
Feb 16, 2009
Capacity Building – Needs and Challenges in India
This IFN discusses some of the current trends and challenges faced by Indian microfinance institutions.
Sep 19, 2008
Safety Net for the Poor: BRAC Bangladesh
In this video, Syed Hashemi, a senior microfinance specialist of CGAP, talks about the effectiveness of microfinance in Bangladesh not only in terms of economic development but also social change. Elaborating this point Hashemi says that it has brought women to the economic foreground and provided better schooling facilities and legal rights to the bottom […]
Aug 11, 2008
Reaching Remote Areas – A Case For North East India
Unfolding the limitations faced by the poor due to lack of financial access, this note draws attention to the indicators for financial inclusion in the North Eastern states of India.
Mar 21, 2008
What Does Competition Mean For Indian MFIs?
The focus note draws lessons from Bangladesh, Bolivia and Uganda for the future of microfinance in India.
Mar 11, 2008
Creating a World Without Poverty Part 1
In this video series-1, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, discusses how in times of global financial crisis the poor have proved themselves to be credit-worthy, contrary to the conventional wisdom of large banks. Speaking at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C, Dr. Yunus talks about Grameen’s Microcredit project in New York and […]
Mar 9, 2008