Friday, April 19, 2013

Clips

'Banking connectivity surges with BC mode'

Banking connectivity has jumped from about 67,000 villages in March 2010 to 211,000 villages in December 2012. The country has about 600,000 villages.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/banking-connectivity-surges-with-bc-mode-113041801146_1.html

Can Mobile-Enabled Savings Products Bridge the Youth Financial Services Gap?

Many of the challenges to saving faced by the world's poorest people were highlighted in the recent Washington Post article "Microsavings Programs Build Wealth, Pennies at a Time."

http://cfi-blog.org/2013/04/18/can-mobile-enabled-savings-products-bridge-the-youth-financial-services-gap/

Islamic Microfinance And Clients: See What I Do, Not What I Say

A few years ago, while listening to a focus group of Muslim microfinance clients in Gaza, I heard something seemingly contradictory.

http://www.cgap.org/blog/islamic-microfinance-and-clients-see-what-i-do-not-what-i-say

Beyond GDP

ANNIVERSARIES are a good occasion to try something new. So when the Skoll World Forum, a big shindig for social entrepreneurs, celebrated its tenth anniversary in Oxford last week, it launched the Social Progress Index (SPI)—a new way to measure social progress that goes beyond the dominant metric of development, gross domestic product.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/feastandfamine/2013/04/social-progress

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