Protesters who toppled Hasina want a Nobel laureate to lead Bangladesh. Who is Muhammad Yunus?Bangladesh is undergoing a significant political upheaval after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country following weeks of vio...
06 Aug, 2024, 06.11 PM IST
RBI’s new guidelines to make microfinance strongerUnlike the earlier definition that distinguished between rural and urban, RBI has now set a common household limit of Rs 300,000 for loans ...
04 Apr, 2022, 02.25 PM IST
Will microfinance survive the Covid-19 crisis? Yes, it will thriveThe Indian microfinance sector can and will play a major role in ensuring confidence and credit at the grassroots when it is needed the mos...
23 May, 2020, 01.10 PM IST
Microfinance to mega dreams: Aspiration should be to financially include over 400 million lives in IndiaIn terms of reach, microfinance sector has created an astonishing last-mile connectivity infrastructure where over 60,000 lending officers ...
04 Apr, 2019, 11.40 AM IST
Feet on the street: The golden rule of Microfinance“Microfinance" has steadily evolved from 1970s when organisations such as “Grameen Bank” of Bangladesh pioneered by Prof. Muhammad Yunus ga...
25 Feb, 2019, 12.44 PM IST
Onus on emerging economies to speak up for inter-connected world: President Ram Nath KovindThe president was delivering the inaugural address at the centenary conference of the Indian Economic Association at the Acharya Nagarjuna ...
27 Dec, 2017, 02.34 PM IST
NDA will revive all development projects to fulfil its promises: M Venkaiah NaiduUnion Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said the NDA is committed to revive all the development projects, which were left u...
07 Jun, 2014, 04.32 PM IST
I-T department reveals top 10 assessees in all categoriesDirectors of Kamal Sponge Steel & Power, facing CBI probe in coal scam, are in list of top 10 Income Tax assessees in 'Individual' category...
01 Dec, 2013, 01.20 PM IST
Distressed Andhra Pradesh farmers selling organs to escape debt trapMany ineligible farmers were allowed farm loan waiver in Andhra while several marginal and small farmers were denied benefit, CAG report re...
07 Mar, 2013, 08.48 AM IST
- Social funds prop up cash-starved MFIs
MFIs are finding support from social & philanthropic funds. Sector's traditional sources of funding have dried up following accusations tha...
21 Jun, 2011, 09.36 AM IST
Steps MFIs need to take for the poor in IndiaBanks lend to MFIs at around 12% while MFIs lent to borrowers at around 30% before the Andhra Pradesh ordinance and at about 24% after it.
09 Apr, 2011, 04.45 AM IST
- In Defence of Investors in Microfinance
nvestors in microfinance have come in for some severe criticism in industry circles in the recent past.
23 Mar, 2011, 03.21 PM IST
- Quest for fast growth lands India's microfinance institutions in soup
The quest for fast growth has landed india’s microfinance institutions in the soup. ET’s M Rajshekhar decodes the crisis and looks at the w...
08 Mar, 2010, 03.56 AM IST
- Slapgate: How responsible are our MPs?
Cong MP M Jagannatham from AP's Nagarkurnool issued an unconditional apology to the bank manager he had slapped. However incidents like the...
02 Jul, 2009, 03.37 PM IST
- Congress MP slaps bank manager
Congress MP from Nagarkurnool in Andhra Pradesh M Jagannath on Tuesday found himself in a spot after he allegedly slapped a bank manager in...
01 Jul, 2009, 03.29 PM IST
- Growth can’t be achieved without positive regulation
Capping of rates will reduce the viability of legitimate institutions and encourage players willing to use unethical practices to dominate ...
09 Apr, 2007, 01.48 AM IST
- Andhra experience to have its mark on bill
The community of banks, MFIs and NBFCs is awaiting eagerly the Microfinance Bill which is expected to be tabled in the budget session of Pa...
26 Feb, 2007, 03.46 AM IST