http://ifmrblog.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:20:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Divya Moorthy, CIFD Childbirth ushers with it a ray of hope and joy for the family. Pregnancy, birth and motherhood, in an environment that respects women, can powerfully affirm women’s rights and social status without jeopardizing their health. The enabling environment for safe motherhood and childbirth depends on the care ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/29/cifd-to-launch-pregnancy-financing-product/ Olympia A. De Castro from IFMR Capital gave us an insight on the correspondent banking model in Brazil that led to some interesting comparison debates with the Indian model. We bring you some highlights of the discussion: The Growth According to the Central Bank of Brazil, Correspondent Banking (CB) is “a measure ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/28/correspondent-banking-in-brazil/ Why is complete financial inclusion such a big challenge? Why cannot financial products that are designed for one set of people be taken to another? Search for answers and you might come up with reasons like, among others, lack of capability of the financial service provider, unviable commercial exercise or ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/26/financial-inclusion-understand-your-customer/ - By Senthil Kumar Govindararaja, Project Coordinator, IFPRI International Food Policy Research institute (IFPRI), Washington DC and ICAAP (IKP Centre for Advancement in Agricultural practice) joined together to establish global agricultural knowledge facility through information and communication technology (ICT) in India. The project aims to establish an interactive internet-based platform ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/23/ifpri-icaap-project-to-provide-global-agricultural-advisory-services-to-small-and-marginal-farmers/ With a vast majority of the Indian population living in the rural hinterland, its economy and growth are linked to developmental efforts. Crucial to this is in ensuring that the fruits of financial inclusion reaches their doorstep. An article in today's Economic Times, showcases the work of IFMR Trust and ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/22/the-local-touch-financial-inclusion-et-article/ - Bindu Ananth, President IFMR Trust What is the link between supply chain interventions and access to finance? The Rural Tourism Network Enterprise (RTNE) has received a lot of attention from the press recently for its work in connecting rural homestays to budget travellers. This is a good time to recap the original ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/15/supply-chain-intervention-and-access-to-finance/ Understanding and channelizing local issues at the grassroots level to policy makers at both regional and national level is both challenging and vital. With a dual objective to create a platform for conducting such local public-private dialogue (PPD) to enhance awareness of issues and assisting in measuring and representing local ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/12/initiating-local-public-private-dialogue-to-better-policymaking/ -By Vineet Sukumar, IFMR Capital In a recent post, Daniel Rozas and Vinod Kothari have argued that microfinance securitisation does not, in reality, separate ‘pool risk’ from ‘originator risk’ and hence should not be rated very differently from the originator of the portfolio. Some of the arguments are well reasoned out such ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/09/the-fundamental-premise-of-securitisation-the-microfinance-case-study/ Considered alone, development, finance and management is each a vast field, albeit with substantial overlaps among them.  Let me illustrate the overlap by means of an example which has relevance from a historical and contemporary perspective, namely, the central role of finance and management in development. At the early stages of ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/08/professor-t-n-srinivasan-on-the-importance-of-integrating-finance-management-and-development/ -By Sucharita Mukherjee Securitisation of assets by NBFCs came under regulatory purview with draft guidelines being put on the RBI website on June 3rd. With more than 80% of the microfinance market being with NBFC MFIs, this has a strong effect on the microfinance securitisation market. Securitisation has recently come up ... http://ifmrblog.com/2010/07/07/rbi-draft-guidelines-on-securitisation-balancing-growth-and-stability/