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In efforts to increase its rural presence across India, U.S. headquartered Western Union, a money transfer services company, has partnered with Microfinance...

Insurance companies are developing a greater number of options for rural Indian and low-income customers. Leveraging grassroots representatives such as a milk...

Recent New York Times Op-Ed by Thomas Friedman on a potentially large opportunity for mobile banking in India. Friedman sites Delhi based...

With inadequate energy infrastructure and an unreliable energy supply even to areas that are connected to the power grid, clean energy companies...

A study completed by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Centre for Development Finance at the Institute for Financial Management and...

Azim Premji, the Chairman of Wipro, is donating $2 billion to the Azim Premji Trust, which will channel funds to educational and...

Indian mobile-phone company, Bharti-Airtel, has projected rapid growth in sales of its satellite TVs in rural India. It hopes to leverage its...

Japanese companies are beginning to have more of a focus on people within lower income levels in emerging markets. Recently, Japanese company,...

U.S. Fortune 500 consumer goods company, Proctor & Gamble Co., has started production and distribution of The Gillete Guard, a low-cost razor,...