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Private Equity funds step up investments in MFIs
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13.7.2010 |
Business Standard: Markets & Investing |
Private equity (PE) investments in microfinance institutions (MFIs), which fell by 12 per cent last year (2009), have recovered this year. |
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[leigh :: MFIs]
[ind32 :: Indian startups]
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Two MFIs slash rates, others may follow suit
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17.6.2010 |
ET: Economy/Finance |
| Two microfinance institutions (MFIs) in different parts of the country have slashed lending rates, putting pressure on the rest of the sector to follow suit. |
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[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
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[meerak :: bengaluru government]
[meerak :: bengaluru business]
[zainab :: Microfinance]
[kolcarto :: Kolkata]
[meerak :: Bengaluru business]
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SHG groups in debt trap in East Godavari
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14.6.2010 |
Deccan Chronicle: Rajahmundry |
| June 13: The women’s self-help group (SHG) activity with financial assistance from banks is facing hurdles in the last two years in East Godavari. Started in 1994, the activity reached 80,000 groups over the years and stood in the first place at the national-level in SHG- bank linkage for more than a decade. In the last two years, the district lost its number one position.
With almost neglig
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[leigh :: SHGs]
[fredericknoronha :: poverty]
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Truant microfinance companies to be taken to task
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18.5.2010 |
Business Standard: Banking & Finance |
| The Andhra Pradesh government will file criminal cases against microfinance institutions (MFIs) that resort to coercion and use inhuman means to recover loans extended to the poor. |
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[fredericknoronha :: panchayat]
[leigh :: MFIs]
[leigh :: SHGs]
[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
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AP gets tough on erring MFIs
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29.4.2010 |
Business Standard: Economy & Policy |
| The Andhra Pradesh government will file criminal cases against microfinance institutions (MFIs) that resort to coercion and use inhuman means to recover loans extended to the poor. It will also invoke the provisions of the AP Money Lending Act to ensure MFIs do not fleece customers with interest charges. |
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[leigh :: SHGs]
[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
[fredericknoronha :: panchayat]
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Needing Rs 20k cr, microfin cos eye IPOs
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23.4.2010 |
Financial Express: Front Page |
| The domestic micro finance sector needs Rs 20,000 crore of resources to reach out to 10 crore poor people living in the country. Keeping in view the huge requirement, the sector has kept all options of fund raising plans open including private equity and initial public offering. |
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[nilaymedh :: ipo]
[leigh :: MFIs]
[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
[kjrajesh :: Media]
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Microfinance institutions push tribals into debt trap
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22.4.2010 |
Hindu: Andhra Pradesh |
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[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
[subbu :: All News]
[sandman1965 :: Realty]
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Report card
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8.4.2010 |
Financial Express: Front Page |
| Microfinance sector has emerged out of the development paradigm. Over a period of time microfinance sector has... |
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[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
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Collector who ‘rescued' distressed weavers
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5.4.2010 |
Hindu: Andhra Pradesh |
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[fredericknoronha :: poverty]
[pwdc :: All-States]
[TOM :: All-States]
[anjana :: Women-Harassment]
[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
[leigh :: MFIs]
[leigh :: SHGs]
[leigh :: All Rural Suicides]
[leigh :: Weaver Suicides]
[leigh :: Andhra Pradesh]
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The business of microfinance
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28.3.2010 |
Mint: Our View |
| SKS Microfinance’s entry into capital markets has the potential to change the nature of microlending in India, and add fuel to the debate over the industry’s profit motives |
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Farmer ends life
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25.3.2010 |
Hindu: Karnataka |
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[leigh :: Farmer Suicides]
[leigh :: Karnataka]
[indiatogether :: Farm Suicides]
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[pwdc :: All]
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[leigh :: MFIs]
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[TOM :: All-States]
[TOM :: All]
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BoB launches Mobile Micro Loan Factory in UP district
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24.3.2010 |
Business Standard: Banking & Finance |
| Public sector bank Bank of Baroda (BoB) has launched a Mobile Micro Loan Factory (MMLF) in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh as part of its financial inclusion programme in the state. |
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‘Microfin would be OK with self-regulation , code of conduct’
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17.3.2010 |
ET: Opinion |
| Jayshree Vyas, chairperson of Sadhan , an association of community development finance institutions with 234 members spread across the country, speaks to ET about the micro finance sector. |
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Crop failure, borrowings did Balangir farmer in
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14.3.2010 |
New Indian Express |
| Crop failure, borrowings did Balangir farmer in |
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[sandman1965 :: Realty]
[ajnyani :: AGECON]
[arghyam :: Floods2009]
[indiatogether :: Microfinance]
[ajnyani :: FSG]
[nwct :: Healthcare]
[leigh :: MFIs]
[leigh :: All Rural Suicides]
[leigh :: Farmer Suicides]
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Villagers avoiding debt trap in Gulbarga
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11.3.2010 |
New Indian Express |
| Villagers avoiding debt trap in Gulbarga |
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[shrimali :: Indian Agriculture]
[leigh :: MFIs]
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Microfinance under the microscope
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11.3.2010 |
HBL: Opinion |
| Many MFIs (microfinance institutions) started financing the poor but somewhere they lost the customer focus and along with that the mission too, rues N. Srinivasan in Microfinance India: State of the Sector Report 2009 ( |
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[leigh :: MFIs]
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[phemk23 :: South India Agriculture]
[ajnyani :: KAGECON]
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AI to increase summer capacity by 10pc
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11.3.2010 |
NDTV Business |
|  The ailing national carrier Air India has decided to increase the domestic capacity by 10 per cent from March 29 to tap the summer rush, besides introducing in-flight entertainment on the metro routes, according to a senior airline official.
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Introduce agriculture credit policy, suggests farm scientist
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11.1.2010 |
The Statesman |
| Introduce agriculture credit policy, suggests farm scientist |
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[leigh :: SHGs]
[indiatogether :: Farm Suicides]
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[leigh :: All Rural Suicides]
[leigh :: Farmer Suicides]
[ajnyani :: AGECON]
[shrimali :: Indian Agriculture]
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The spectre of farmers suicides
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10.1.2010 |
New Indian Express |
| The spectre of farmers suicides |
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[subbu :: All News]
[arghyam :: Floods2009]
[shrimali :: Indian Agriculture]
[leigh :: All Rural Suicides]
[leigh :: Farmer Suicides]
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[leigh :: SHGs]
[phemk23 :: Eastern India Agriculture]
[ajnyani :: AGECON]
[shrimali :: contract farming]
[fredericknoronha :: water]
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Maharashtra Govt proposes scheme to help debt-ridden Vidarbha farmers
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31.12.2009 |
Hindustan Times: India |
| A proposal by Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Minister, Nitin Raut, envisages giving five cows or buffalos to a farmer so that he could generate additional income, reports Pradip Kumar Maitra. |
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[leigh :: Farmer Suicides]
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