Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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Microfinance 110

Microfinance Entrepreneur Planning Audience 110

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

Microfinance 11

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit. fewer children.

Microfinance 15

Microfinance Banking Globalization Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

” So the Seilers responded by piloting a program called the Pathway of Hope, which focuses on providing case management for families. Army staffers now develop individual strategies to overcome these barriers, connecting families to community services to achieve self-sufficiency.

Microfinance 9

Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

She imagined a future when her family would be out of poverty AND her kids would start their adult life educated. Sasikala, a Block Development Officer (BDO), talked to the Kodapattinam villagers about microfinance , only Shantha, of all the villagers, saw the opportunity and took action. I knew I wanted to succeed.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Innovation Committee Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Without economies of scale, they argued, developing societies would never develop the efficiencies needed to modernize. To address the needs of youth in developing countries, BRAC launched a girls' empowerment program, Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA), in 2008. So BRAC got into food processing.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Risk education: Gaming enables risk education for both banks and users. Data suggests that these are not sufficient.

Banking 10

Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10