Microfinance – India

This video shows our visit to a village 90 miles outside of Bangalore (India) where a “Microfinance” company is making small business loans (about 0USD) to the women in the village. This scene shows individual women applying for a loan while the other women in the village agree to guarantee the loan. Loans are used to finance income-producing assets such as livestock, rickshaws or raw materials for jewelry & tapestry making. This microfinance company operates in small rural …

9 Comments:

  1. dangg / April 6, 2007 9:01 am

    niceee
    iam doing project on this
    thanks for posting

  2. TomGough2 / April 6, 2007 1:11 pm

    no prob. went there for an MBA class at Rutgers…we went to the SKS Microfinance company’s field office and received a bunch of material explaining the details of their loan programs. I can send you the docs via PDF if it helps your project.

    TG

  3. Paigebaby96 / June 2, 2007 4:40 am

    DONT READ THIS! In 1997 a girl called lauren was walikng in a forest and then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: I wasnt pretty enough” and now you have read this she will appear in your mirror saying your not pretty enough and kill you. by the way the girl called mary died shortly after. To be saved paste this to 5 other videos. THIS TRUE

  4. silverzilla / June 3, 2007 3:04 am

    im finishing my economics degree soon,and microfinance is the only subject i find interesting.

    i notice Grameen bank is offering interships, might be worth doing guys

  5. MikeT2005 / June 14, 2007 10:23 am

    This is awesome. I read a couple of articles on Microfinance and it’s amazing how much something we take for granted in developed countries helps people in developing countries. People fail to realise what banks actually do for society and the commerce they facilitate. Not that all banks are perfect community members.

  6. abcdijkxyz / September 21, 2007 7:03 am

    This wonderful… the credit history of each inviduals is obtain from the group…..

  7. poojaverma20 / May 6, 2008 8:08 am

    the video is very interesting, there are diffrent models of microfinance useed in different countries for example the rickshaw puller cards, the papa-mama cards. microinance is no panacea but certainly an effective initiative

  8. sckryde / June 18, 2008 3:15 pm

    can they grow hemp ?
    for food?
    for fuel?
    for paper?
    for building material?
    for medicine?

  9. Sunchico / February 10, 2009 8:40 pm

    What interest rate do they pay? Why are all these women sitting around and listening? Is it some kind of public ritual similar to marriage where there are witnesses?

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