Tag: Andhra Pradesh
Microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh – An inconvenient truth!
January 31st, 2011
The recent microfinance crisis in Andhra Pradesh is a grim reminder that scale minus thought leadership combined with knee jerk reactions can be disastrous. The result being that a phenomenon that could positively impact the lives of many low income households across India has come to a screeching halt in the state. A summary of Read more …
Posted in Microfinance, Uncategorized |
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, crisis in Andhra Pradesh, current microfinance crisis, Impact of the crisis, India, Initial public offering, Loan, Microcredit, Microfinance, Microfinance in India, need for regulation, Rang, Rang De
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Learnings from the field
October 27th, 2010
By Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter On a bright sunny afternoon we reached Yemmiganur, a bustling town at a distance of 70 kms from Kurnool. Our team consisted of 9 Rang De Chapter Members and after a mostly comfortable 5 hour ride all of us were raring to start the borrower evaluations. We had Read more …
Posted in Chapters, Field Visits, Hyderabad |
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Evaluations, Field Visits, HOPE IRDS, Kurnool
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How is Rang De microcredit different?
October 13th, 2010
By Smita Ram, Rang De Team In the last couple of weeks, we have heard of more than a couple of suicides by borrowers of microfinance institutions in Andhra Pradesh. While the media is known to exaggerate and take a lop sided view of stories, let us not deny the fact that there is a Read more …
Posted in Rang De Process |
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Business, Microfinance, Rang De
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Victims of the flood
October 13th, 2009
Who can understand nature and her ways? While we crib and complain about the heat and lack of rain, there is a part of our country that is flooding with excess rain. While our farmers pray to appease the rain Gods, the farmers of the flood affected states are praying that there is an end Read more …
Posted in Events |
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Borrowers, Calamities, Flood, Karnataka, Rural area
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The flood situation in Kurnool – Update 1
October 8th, 2009
The flooding in the southern states of Karanataka and Andhra Pradesh in the last week has had a tragic impact on the lives of people, especially in the area of Kurnool. Rang De has been working with field partner HOPE in Kurnool to get information about the situation and also support them in the best Read more …