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I gave a talk on 18th March at the 5th birthday of  the  Centre  for European Research in Microfinance, Brussels.  Please click on the link below to see the rather dense PPT Research in Microfinance – A Practitioner’s Perspective – Vijay Mahajan … Continue reading →

For a 15 minute video summary of the last three days of the 80 day Shodh Yatra, click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0N72acSYjo

April 18, 2011     Pochampally, Nalgonda District, Andhra Pradesh Based on report by Vishali Vishwanath, Communications Team, BASIX  The last day of ‘Shodh Yatra’ was planned to culminate on April 18, 2011 in a village called Pochampally (about 45 … Continue reading →

Face to Face with Microfinance Clients Further, for Kolar, feedback from clients during the qualitative investigation by the study team reveals that the multiple borrowing level of 3-4 loans per client in the area resulted from several individuals having taken … Continue reading →

The Census of India 2011, Preliminary Results are out! I am an ardent admirer of India’s mega administrative exercises – the Decennial Census, the General Elections, the Pulse Polio Campaign, the Total Literacy Movement, etc.  The sheer scale of these … Continue reading →

Prof Yunus and I in Dhaka on Apr 11, 2011 Apart from offering our solidarity and conveying the sentiments in our letter below on behalf of the world microfinance community, I also discussed a number of issues with Prof Yunus, … Continue reading →

My Invitation to Bhitiharwa Ashram, Champaran, Bihar, which I sent to about 40 selected people. About 25 came and the responses of some of them after the visit are given below: Dear Friend As you know, I have been on a … Continue reading →

I had taken all of the last week as a a break from the Shodh Yatra, to be in Delhi, Mumbai and  Hyderabad, to attend to work related to “year closing” since the fiscal year ends on March 31. As … Continue reading →

The northeastern states of India – Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, the Seven Sisters, as they are called, with the addition of the little brother, Sikkim,  are remote from the rest of India, and not very … Continue reading →

We stopped by at the Museum in Vaishali an walked through the exhibition in half an hour. The capital city of the Licchavis,  Vaishali was the most important centre of governance, commerce, culture and religion  from the sixth to the … Continue reading →