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A LiveMint article provides edited parts of a transcript from a Mint Clarity Through Debate event, in which the Indian microfinance sector...

NextBillion blog describes a speech given by Vikram Akula, founder of SKS Microfinance in India, on his failures while running SKS, which...

Investor Sequoia Capital has recently invested in Indian microfinance institution, Ujjivan Finance Company, making it the largest investor with a 15.7% stake...

A South Indian entrepreneur, Arunachalam Muruganatham, has created the world’s first low-cost machine to produce sanitary towels for low-income women. Having won...

L&T Insurance company has recently partnered with SEWA, the Self-Employed Women’s Association, to make VimoSEWA, a national insurance cooperative, its first microinsurance...

Coca-Cola and NDTV are partners in a campaign called Support My School in which they are promoting a three year plan to...

Social venture capital investor, Acumen Fund, recently provided a $1 million loan to Indian MFI Gramalaya Urban and Rural Development Initiatives and...

Turmeric farmers in India recently leveraged Facebook as a means of sharing information and eliminating middle men when oversupply and crashing prices...

Bangalore-based Ujjivan Microfinance, one of India’s largest microfinance institutions (MFI), has raised $25.5 million from Lok Capital, Sequoia Capital, Mauritius Unitus Corporation,...

A recent Economic Times article discusses how Indian microfinance institutions are starting to provide a range of lending products beyond traditional microcredit...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has extended advisory services to Indian-based technology company, Financial Information Networks and Operation (FINO). Support will go...

Italian insurance company Generali has recently announced plans to add 2 million new policy holders in India with one of its biggest...

Google India has recently launched the Women Entrepreneurs on the Web (WEOW) program to create an online presence and community for women...

India plans to launch the India Inclusive Innovation Fund, a $1 billion fund that has been set up with initial capital of...

A new report by PwC discusses then ‘next four billion’ and ways to create profitable growth strategies for the global emerging middle...

A recent Forbes India article discusses PepsiCo India’s new chairman, Manu Anand’s, strategy for developing a business model that better reaches BOP...

A new seed fund for social investment, Unitus Seed Fund, has recently been launched by Unitus Labs, a non-profit focused on global...

In a recent interview, Unilever CEO Paul Polman, discusses its ambitious targets of doubling its business by 2020 and reducing its environmental...

A new social enterprise, Waste Ventures, is helping create more formal organizations for waste pickers in India. Waste Ventures aims to empower...

The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DfID) is overhauling its approach to investing in small enterprises in India. The governmental body...

Start-up company Intuit Fasal has recently been profiled as an SMS-based service that helps connect Indian farmers to potential buyers, market information,...

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has recently invested in BASIX Sub-K iTransactions Limited, a mobile payments platform targeting low-income people in...

A number of Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs) may have to close down their operations over the next few years. Strict regulation set...

A recent Business Line article discusses how despite the rapid increase in sales of mobile phones in India, productivity has not necessarily...

TSYS, a leading payments solutions provider in India, has completed a white paper titled, “M-Payments and Prepaid Poised to Define Financial Institutions’...

A recent Business Line article has reported that GE Energy is set to explore the distribution of various water technologies to rural...

Consumper products company Tupperware India plans to enter the country's rural market in the next three years. Currently, the company's operations remain...