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Microfinance India News Digest – 23/10/2009

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 in Compartamos, Criticism of Microfinance, India Microfinance, India Shares, mChek, MFI's in India, Microfinance Mobile, Problems with Microfinance, SKS Microfinance

Microfinance on mobile:
mChek says it has the key .Unlike in earlier other trials, mChek aims to empower the borrower rather than the loan collector, so she can maintain a bank balance and make other mobile transactions such as utility bill payments as well
E. Shantha, 32, earns just Rs1,500 a month cooking in an eatery [...]

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Whats next for Microfinance ?

Posted on September 24th, 2009 in Compartamos, India Shares, Microfinance Health Services, Microfinance Peru, Microfinance World, Microloans Peru, Pro Mujer, Women's Health Initiatives

What’s next for microfinance? More than money

Pro Mujer, an organization that funds microcredit cooperatives in Latin America, also provides women’s health screenings, using a special van retrofitted with medical consultation rooms and staffed by a nurse and doctor. The vans travel into remote parts of southern Peru, combining financial help with preventative health care [...]

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