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I recently attended Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) training – organised by Tata Dhan in Madurai . As part of the training, we applied different PRA tools, such as, social mapping, credit saving matrix, well- being ranking, etc to understand the financial practices of the ultra poor in a village near Madurai . While exercising credit-saving matrix, we focused on learning the credit and savings behavior of eight ultra poor rural women who were landless laborers

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So, what do they do with the loans..?

This post is on behalf of Hari Nathan and Kshama Fernandes of IFMR Capital Aparna Dalal recently wrote a blog post about IFMR Capital’s securitization of microfinance loans. She raises some very insightful questions about securitization and her concerns are well noted. We would like to take the chance to reply to some of these concerns

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Overcoming challenges of securitisation

The following is part of an ongoing blog series from the Rural Market Insight team at the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR. In this posting, we cover a 6-week long user test of the Leo Double Pot stove from Prakti Design. During this test, we deployed the brand new stove and tracked the subject’s use of the stove twice a week for six weeks.

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BoP Product Design & Testing in Urban Spaces Volume 3: User Test of Prakti Design Biofuel Cook Stove

An ongoing study conducted by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Center for Microfinance (CMF) seeks to gain a better understanding of moneylending in India. This study occurred as part of IPA’s project to illuminate the business practices of informal lenders and the relationship of these lenders to their institutional counterparts across five different countries: India, Ghana, the Phillipines, Mexico and Columbia. The study in India was conducted in the Fall of 2009, and, through 48 moneylender interviews and 44 borrower interviews, reveals the prevalence of high-interest informal loans.

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Moneylending: Friend or Foe of Microfinance?

You know, the same way you just don’t think of women as your boss , or Asians as doing much besides pulling rickshaws , or Mexicans as anything but fruit-pickers or housecleaners . YOU know. Isn’t everyone who COUNTS … just like me ?

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You just don’t think of principals as black.

Can your peers help you save more? For members of the informal sector, who don’t have the benefit of direct deposit or formalized commitment mechanisms, peers may help. I just finished reading the working paper , “Peers as a Savings Commitment Device: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Low-Income Micro-Entrepreneurs in Chile.” It discusses results from a randomized field experiment that tests whether peers can act as a commitment device to help microfinance clients save more.

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Get by with a little help from your peers

Continuing with the fascinating questions that Shamnad has thrown up over moral rights and cultural property, Ananya Vajpeyi ruminates on the recent controversy over Ram Gopal Varma’s creative remixing of the national anthem through a reading of the Supreme Court’s judgment in Sanjeev Bhatnagar v. Union of India (Writ Petition 16/2005). The case wanted the deletion of Sindh from Jana Gana Mana and the inclusion of new Indian provinces.

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Two Judges, a Poet and a Gangsta-movie maker

As winner of the AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video Contest with his short “What Is Asheville School?” we wanted to hear a bit more about how Jonathan Hopkins came to Asheville School (Asheville, NC); how his short grew out of his Asheville experiences and where he wants to take his talents? Check out Jonathan’s winning video below his answers. Question (Q): How quickly did you know that you wanted to make a short video for the contest

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A Conversation with Asheville School’s Jonathan Hopkins

Syllabus of AP Transco Assistant Engineer ELECTRICAL Written Test 2010 release under the APTRANSCO Notification 2010 for recruitment of Assistant Engineers. Sample Question Papers, Job and Recruitment Alerts – India

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Syllabus – AP Transco Assistant Engineer TELECOM Written Test 2010

APTRANSCO (Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited) invites ONLINE APPLICATIONS for the recruitment of Assistant Engineer (Electrical – 233, Telecom – 11 and Civil – 11). Download more details of application form, apply online, download syllabus and sample question papers

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APTRANSCO Notification 2010 Recruitment of Assistant Engineers (Electrical, Civil, Telecom)

Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) invites applications for various Group ‘B’ (Non-Gazetted Ministerial Posts) and Group ‘C’ (Non-Gazetted Non-Ministerial) posts in the different departments/Local Bodies/Autonomous Bodies of Government of NCT of Delhi. Applications Starts on December 29, 2009 and the Last Date to Apply is January 15, 2010. Download More details and application forms

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Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) Recruitment 2010

MAHAGENCO (Maharashtra State Power Generation Co. Ltd.) has published the result showing the details of Successful Candidates for the Post of Junior Engineer (Civil) whose Appointment Letters are issued under Direct Recruitment. Last date for Reporting at Respective Office of CGM/GM is January 22, 2010 Sample Question Papers, Job and Recruitment Alerts – India

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MAHAGENCO Result Junior Engineer (Civil) Direct Recruitment

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR CONFERENCE ON EMERGING ISSUES OF LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE COMING DECADE MARCH 26-27 2010, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI India has experienced major changes in its economic, social and political life during last two decades. Record economic growth has been accompanied by rapid urbanisation, rise in informal forms of employment, emerging crisis in agriculture, concerns over the sustainability of the environment and rise in unconventional crimes. There has been an increase in inequality raising concerns over the human rights of large sections of the population.

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Call for Papers: Conference on Emerging Issues of Law and Justice

Syllabus for SSC Junior Engineer Recruitment (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and Structural). The standard of the questions in Engineering subjects will be approximately of the level of Diploma in Engineering (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical etc) from a recognized Institute, Board or University and recognized by All India Board of Technical Education.

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Syllabus for SSC Junior Engineer Recruitment

IDBI Bank has changed the date of written test for Recruitment of Assistant Manager Grade “A”. Old Date was December 13, 2009 and the New Date is Sunday, December 27, 2009. The call letters will be available on the bank’s Website for download.

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IDBI Assistant Manager Grade A: Call Letters & New Exam Date

The Alternative Law Forum , in collaboration with the School of Law of Christ University, is organising a two-day seminar on ‘Human Rights in Contemporary India: Emerging Challenges.’ The seminar will be held on the campus of Christ University in Bangalore on Dec 19th and 20th, 2009, and features presentations on a number of pressing issues by leading academics, public interest lawyers and NGO representatives. Details of the event, including the programme and the people to contact if you are interested in attending, are available here .

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Event announcement: Seminar on Human Rights in India

The following is part of an ongoing blog series from the Rural Market Insight team at the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR. Say you have a new design insight for a BoP consumer product. How long might it take to prototype your idea and deploy it for testing?

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BoP Product Design & Testing in Urban Spaces Volume 1: From Idea to Prototype in 90 Minutes

Recently at a conference, my colleague Bree Bacon and i were flipping through the ‘Beyond Profit’ magazine and came across pictures of the rural poor in every other page – the woman in a sari by the cookstove, the children playing by the river or with rubber tyres, the gleeful school-kids, the men in the farms…It struck me at that point that if photography in the corporate sector can be a commercial venture with numerous ad agencies and publishing firms making money and having to pay for ‘models’ to sell a product – Couldn’t the same concept be translated to the rural ‘poor’?

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Rural India photography – can the poor benefit by being paid for the free service?

This post is not so much about the creation of Telangana, as much as the response of urban Indians to the development. 1) These bloody politicians ! They will do anything to become CM and grab power. The object of politics is to gain power

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Mayawati is asking for more states, therefore it must be a bad thing

Applications are invited from trained and experienced candidates with good academics record, excellent communication skills and proficiency in co-curricular activities for the forthcoming academic session for the following posts: 1. PGT (Post Graduate Teacher) : English, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Accountancy, Economics, Business Studies, information  Practice, Geography, Physical Education

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