USAID boosting rural economy by $50 Million

USAID to give rural economy $50-million boost India Today USAID has also announced that it will set up 30 Rural Business Hubs in eastern India, in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). These hubs would exclusively focus on farmers for disseminating best practices and technologies. ...

Finance to Poor people:UN Backed Initiative

Millions of rural poor to receive banking services under UN-backed initiative Middle East North Africa Financial Network Dec 14, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Two companies from India and South Africa announced today their commitment to provide banking services to 30 million low-income people living in rural areas by 2015, as part of their support for a United ...

Micro finance

Is Microfinance Pushing the World's Poorest Even Deeper Into Poverty? New Republic While admitting that access to credit is a handy tool, Mazhar of UBINIG argues that microfinance had been elevated into a shibboleth of market-based theories of development that encourages the withdrawal of the state from rural development in favor of ...

ACCESS Development Services and HSBC Present Microfinance India Awards India Infoline.com YC Nanda is the former chairman of NABARD. He is also an alumnus of Delhi School of Economics. He has been involved with a number of microfinance institutions, rural development agencies, management institutes as Director/Trustee. ...

World Bank (WB) has offered technical assistance

WB offers aid for development Manila Bulletin By RIO ROSE RIBAYA MANILA, Philippines — World Bank (WB) has offered technical assistance that would develop the operation of different government agencies and guarantee sustainable rural development in the country. Joseph Lim, a study consultant for ...

New CGAP paper on randomized evaluations

Randomized Microfinance Evaluations Highlight Opportunities for Improved Product Design
CGAP has released a new paper, Latest Findings from Randomized Evaluations of Microfinance, which synthesizes the latest research findings from around the world on a range of financial services, including credit, savings, and microinsurance. These existing studies offer a foundation for examining when particular products and designs work, for whom, and why, so that products and delivery approaches can be adjusted to meet the needs of poor people. The paper details a number of examples of simple and often inexpensive design tweaks and innovations that have shown significant results.

http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.17970/ 

Shortage class room by 4.6 Lacs

India faces shortage of over 4.6 lakh classrooms Economic Times She also said that under the Jalmani Programme, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has provided a sum of Rs 200 crore to install stand alone water purification systems in rural schools. On a question regarding the enrollment of Muslim ...

Resolution to End poverty: China

Outline shows resolution in ending poverty China Daily "These regions will see intensified efforts aimed at fighting poverty and increased financial input," said Wang Sangui, professor at Renmin University of China's School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. Currently, poverty reduction does ...

Economic Model: China

China's Superior Economic Model Wall Street Journal ... investment in renewable energy; construction of six million homes; and expanding next-generation IT, clean-energy vehicles, biotechnology, high-end manufacturing and environmental protection—all while promoting social equity and rural development. ...