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By Smita Premchander, M. Chidambaranathan and Nikita Kaul, Microfinance Focus, May 17, 2010 : Editor’s Note: Paper prepared for: Roundtable on Women’s Right to Food and Access to Productive Resources With the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Oliver De Schutter, Chennai, 30 March 2010 Abstract Microfinance was initially an intervention that was expected to deliver the poor out of poverty, and was stated also ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 23, 2009: India's mobile solutions provider 'mChek' has been awarded the TiE-Lumis entrepreneurial excellence award. The award is to encourage startups which have made a mark in the industry. It has also developed mobile banking and payments technology for microfinance applications and conducted a pilot project with Grameen Koota, an MFI in Bangalore. mCheck had earlier bagged the Global Red Herring 100 Award in ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept. 22, 2009: The WWB Center for Microfinance Leadership is planning to hold its first "Women in Leadership" workshop, aimed at women CEOs and senior managers, in January 2010 in Bangalore, India. The center is an initiative of Women's World Banking (WWB), a leading global network of microfinance institutions, with aid from the MasterCard Foundation to the tune of $3.1 million. Full story