Women in remote villages of Nagpur district are joining the digital revolution unfolding there. On a visit to Kelwad and Ghorad villages in the district earlier this week, I met women (and men) doing all kinds of financial transactions digitally- making electricity bill payments, recharging their pre-paid mobiles, depositing or

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Equal workforce participation of women would add US$ 12 trillion to the global GDP by 2025. Yet, only one in five women in India participate in the workforce and we are doing worse than our neighbors like Bangladesh and Bhutan. Research has shown that diversity in the workforce and in

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By Wamiq Zia   Promoting women’s entrepreneurship and gender equality helps to create employment as well as to empower women in the family and wider community[1]. However, one of the major issues faced by the women in undertaking entrepreneurial activities is the lack of understanding of marketing of products, including

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By Wamiq Zia  Introduction The Field Managers are the backbone of any Microfinance Institution (MFI), they are the main link between the MFI and the clients that the MFI caters to. However, often this field level staff has to work in extreme pressure environments due to issues such as disbursing

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On the outskirts of Allahabad, India, low income segments, rural women are changing attitudes in their village and their lives. Most women in the village of Jhusi are striving to be financially stable by taking microloans for their small enterprises. Some are widows taking care of families. Some are helping

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On a morning of dazzling blue sky, outside a rural village in Rajasthan, I welcomed farmers who had brought their goats for vaccination. Soon, hundreds of farmers were lined up, their goats butting heads as they nosed the hilly terrain for specs of grass.  But the vaccinators didn’t show up. 

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