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Is Microfinance the New Subprime?

Posted in Featured Articles on Nov 9th, 2010

By Barbara Kiviat David Bohnett Fellow at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service & Jonathan Morduch Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative 8 November 2010 [HBR] Is microfinance the new subprime? We’ve been hearing that portentous analogy for years, and now that the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh is riveting the [...]

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Indian State Tightens Microcredit Rules Amid Suicide Scare

Posted in Featured Articles on Nov 9th, 2010

By Kate Woodsome 9 November 2010 [VOANews] Micro-credit lending, which involves making small loans to poor people to start businesses, has improved millions of lives in recent decades. But authorities in southern India say the practice is becoming a corrupt and occasionally deadly business. Officials in India’s Andhra Pradesh state are investigating a string of [...]

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