9/3/10: Measure? Alleviate? No, Eliminate Poverty. “Martín Burt, the founder of Fundación Paraguaya, is making a bold leap. Not content to measure poverty impact, or even to alleviate poverty, Burt thinks he can get every Fundación Paraguaya client out of poverty…” Read our Center for Financial Inclusion's Elisabeth Rhyne's piece in the Huffington Post to learn more.  8/4/10: Responsible Pricing: The State of the Practice. Today, The Smart Campaign released a discussion paper that examines the full range of approaches to responsible pricing of microloans, from promoting competition, to return on equity limitations, to interest rate caps, to comparative transparency. Download the full paper here.
7/29/10: The SKS IPO – Using the Capital Markets to Fight Poverty. This week, SKS, one of India’s largest and most successful microfinance institutions, is issuing shares on the India stock exchange in one of India’s – and the microfinance industry’s – most talked-about IPOs.
We believe that this IPO will ultimately prove to be an historic milestone for the poor in India and beyond, opening the door to assistance on a scale never before seen in the region. In fact, the impact of the IPO goes well beyond SKS itself, demonstrating the role that capital markets can play in fighting poverty. Click here to read more. 7/27/10: A New Financial Access Frontier: Persons With Disabilities. Can a person with a disability living in a developing country become the valued client of a financial institution? Read our Center for Financial Inclusion's Elisabeth Rhyne's piece in the Huffington Post to learn more.
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