The group of nations known (by wonks anyway) as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are…
Kentaro Toyama is a Seattle man on a mission. A computer and information scientist who co-founded and ran Microsoft Research…
Child malnutrition has an impact equivalent to that of the AIDS pandemic, one writer says, commenting on a new report…
India will have made it one year, as of Friday, without a reported case of polio — a milestone everyone…
Peter Small wanted to get back on the front lines. Small, who qualifies as one of the old-timers at the…
One of every four deaths from cervical cancer worldwide is a woman in India. The cancer, which kills…
The anti-poverty scheme known as microfinance is in crisis, or maybe several crises. The political sacking of Muhammad Yunus as…
There is a crisis in the anti-poverty scheme microfinance, centered in India but reverberating globally. I posted on the local…
The debate about microfinance in India is not really about whether or not it’s in crisis or at risk of…
As loyal readers of this blog know, I’ve been watching and reporting on the increasing turmoil in the Indian microfinance…