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NYT Profiles Ela Bhatt and SEWA

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 7, 2009

The New York Times carried a Saturday profile of Ela Bhatt and the remarkable organization she founded thirty-five years ago, SEWA. Here is an excerpt:

Mrs. Bhatt’s Gandhian approach is most evident in the way she lives. Her two-bedroom

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Gandhi, Gandhian, Grassroots Initiatives, Health, RAND, SEWA, Women's Rights | 2 Comments

TC-I Tidbits

By Shital Shah | Published: April 24, 2008

Health:
- At a pharmaceutical advisory forum, the Minister for Chemical and Fertilisers announced that India will reduce the cost of medicine by almost 5 percent and develop injections for live threatening infections.
- Worried about the growing

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged debt, debt collection, e-medicine, economy, Government, Health, iGovernment, legislation, Malnutrition, medicine, nutrition, obesity, Outsourcing, Policy, rights, sexual harassment, Tidbits, Trade, TradeIndia, Women's Rights | Leave a comment

Op-Ed: Should SKS Microfinance go Public?

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 24, 2008

A recent article on www.sramanamitra.com postulates that SKS Microfinance, which offers “several microfinance options to the poor in India for a variety of businesses from agriculture and livestock purchase to basket weaving and photography,”…

Posted in Op-Ed | Also tagged Agriculture, Aman, BusinessWeek, CGAP, collaboration, commercialization, Compartamo, compartamos, empowerment, Finance/Credit, Financial products, financial services, for profit, global financial institutions, Governance, Government, Grameen, Grameen Bank, Incentives, ISB, markets, marriage, MFI, Microcredit, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, Muhammad, Muhammad Yunus, NextBillion, NextBillion.net, NGO, NGOs, NGOs and Non-profits, nonprofit, npr, NY Times, Op-Ed, partnerships, poverty, poverty alleviation, PPP, PPPs, prize, Prizes, profits, Public Private, public private partnership, RBI, SKS, SKS microfinance, Vikram Akula, Yunus | 6 Comments

Cellphones and Development

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 15, 2008

Recently, the NYTimes featured an article entitled, “Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?”, in which it highlighted a new wave of “human behaviour” research funded by cellphone companies such as Nokia in order to tap into less…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Africa, Blood donor, BoP, business school, cellphones, China, collaboration, Communications, CureHunter, death, developing countries, Economics, economy, Education, empowerment, Entrepreneurship, featured, global poverty, Grassroots Initiatives, Harvard, Harvard University, Health, Hindi, Housing, IFC, Innovation, InternetSpeech, Kerala, LifeLines Education, marketplace, markets, mobile phone, Mobile Phones, mobile technology, Nokia, poverty, profits, RBI, Rural, rural India, SKS, SMS, Social Entrepreneurship, software, Technology, Transaction, Uplift | Leave a comment

India’s hottest new Import

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: April 15, 2008

NYU Stern professor and former WSJ editor Tunku Varadarajan, writes an interesting op-ed about the Washington Redskins Cheerleading squad which just landed in Bangalore to select and train cheerleaders for the local cricket team, Bangalore Royal Challengers [via

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bangalore, Cheerleaders, cricket, NY Times, NYU, Op-Ed, Washington Redskins | Leave a comment

India’s first Social Capital Exchange to be launched (I’m serious!)

By Santhosh Ramdoss | Published: April 6, 2008

According to story today on Business Standard, M-Cril, the credit rating agency is launching a platform called ‘Capital Connect’ which will enable MFIs and social enterprises to access capital from investors looking to make investments in this space.…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Business Standard, Capital Connect, Compartamo, Energy, expertise, Finance/Credit, Green Energy, Health, Housing, IPO, kiva, Kiva.org, M-Cril, markets, MFI, Microfinance, microfinance institutions, RAND, Social business, social businesses, social capital exchange, Social Capital Market, social enterprise, social investment, Social Venture Capital | Leave a comment

India’s Affinity with Africa – A Question of Self Interest?

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: April 3, 2008

According to the International Energy Agency, India’s energy needs – fueled by 8% annual economic growth – are projected to double by the year 2030. Moreover, India is expected to become the biggest net importer of oil by the year 2025, after the…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Africa, cars, China, Conference, Conferences, economic growth, economy, Energy, Government, Health, healthcare, Hyderabad, India Africa relations, India-Africa, India-Africa heads of state meeting, Manmohan Singh, Media, medicine, meeting, New Delhi, NY Times, Reuters, Rural, Singh, Tata, Technology, telemedicine, Trade | Leave a comment

[Guest Post]: State of Education in India

By Vinay Ganti | Published: March 31, 2008

Editor’s note: The following post is from Siksha.org’s blog (you can read more of their posts here), a peer to peer underwriter of annual, renewable, need-based scholarships and loans. Two of the co-founders and…

Posted in Primary | Also tagged Bihar, bottom up approach, Education, education and scale, expertise, , Government, Grassroots Initiatives, Guest Post, HIV, Indian government, Pratham, Renewable, Rural, scholarship, Scholarships, Siksa.org, Siksha, siksha.org, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, survey, teachers, Universities, Uplift, youth | Leave a comment

Midday Newsfeed

By Prerna Srivastava | Published: March 29, 2008

Weekend headlines for your leisurely perusal:

Inflation rates in India rose to a 13 month high of 6.7% for the week ending on March 15th. Economists predict a sharp rise in prices of food and energy following. In response, Congress

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged advertising, Agriculture, cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA), CCEA, Center for monitoring climate change, Chennai, climate change, Conference, construction, Economist, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance/Credit, funding for rural minority districts, Gandhi, Government, Health, HUL, iGovernment, Inflation, inflation rates, infrastructure, integrated child development services, Monitor, multi-sectoral development programme, Policy, public restrooms for profit, rahul gandhi, rice exports, rising domestic prices, Rural, Tamil Nadu, Technology, toilets, tractor, Trade, VAMP | Leave a comment

Evening Edition

By Shital Shah | Published: March 27, 2008

A new United Nations report, Redefining AIDS in Asia: Crafting an Effective Response, was just released and makes an astonishing prediction: 500,000 peaple could die each year people due to AIDS-related illnesses by 2020. (Source:

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Posted in Primary | Also tagged Agriculture, AIDS, biofuels, climate change, debt, economy, Energy, Environment, farmer debt, farmers, Finance/Credit, Government, green tech, Health, infrastructure, Private Equity, PSD Blog, Rural, rural banks, Social Venture Capital, social welfare, Technology, United Nations, Worldbank | Leave a comment

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