Tag: Loan
Simple Measures – A field trip review.
August 16th, 2011
By Anju Lavina, Rang De Team Being born to Social Workers and subsequently working in the social sector means that I have had many opportunities to meet people in the field, interact with them on a one-one basis and understand their stories and inevitably become a part of their lives. Some of these stories are Read more …
Posted in Evaluations, Field Visits, repayments, Travel |
Tags: Animal, Borrowers, Cattle, Cows, Devaki, Evaluations, Field partners, India, Investment, Kerala, Loan, Poverty, Rang De, RangDe.Org, Self-Help Group, Social Investors, Tamil Nadu
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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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Are we a charity? Nope, We are not
February 15th, 2010
By Aishwarya Mishra, Rang De Hyderabad Chapter Member On 31st January, I attended TEDxHitechCity along with Rang De co-founder Ram, and Rang De Hyderabad Chapter member, Bharathi. Ram and I had not registered earlier and were quite apprehensive about our entry into the event. Thanks to the event organizers, we were able to register on Read more …
Posted in Chapters, Events, Guest Blogs, Hyderabad, Microlending, Rang De Ideas |
Tags: Alternate to Charity, Business, Investment, Loan, Microcredit, Online Microlending, Rang De, speakers, TEDxHiTechCity
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Update – Rang De Education Loans
February 12th, 2010
By Ramakrishna Nk, Rang De Team After a very inspiring TEDxHitechCity Meet at Hyderabad, Aishwarya (member of the Rang De Hyderabad Chapter) and I decided to take off to the Charminar area to meet some of the recipients of our education loan. Aishwarya took half a day off and we both set off with a Read more …
Posted in Borrowers, Evaluations, Field Visits, Microfinance, Microlending, Rang De Process, Travel |
Tags: Business, Education, Evaluations, Loan, Microcredit, Microfinance, Roshan Vikas, School
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The evaluator’s dilemma
January 21st, 2010
By Smita Ram, Rang De Team I have just got back from a field visit to Palakkad in Kerala. Like with every other field trip, the Kerala field trip had its own impact on the mind. The objective of most of these field trips is to get a chance to interact with borrowers and of Read more …
Posted in Borrowers, Evaluations, Rang De Process, Travel |
Tags: Asia, Evaluations, Field trip, India, Kerala, Loan, Microcredit
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Field report from an intern – Mentorship for micro-entrepreneurs
June 25th, 2009
By Vikram Murthy, Summer Intern – IIM Calcutta “Once we identify the borrowers we would finance their expansion plans and then get them mentored by experts in areas that the borrowers would need help in!” When Ram finished explaining his idea I was excited by this first-of-its kind initiative, the mentoring initiative, which lends a Read more …