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Savers, planners, and entrepreneurs: Banking the Unbanked in Mexico
08:40
May 25, 2012
Mexico has 27 million households. Twenty-two million of them are low income. Even though banks reach them physically, almost none of these people choose to use bank accounts...
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Eko: Chasing the Fortune at the Base of the Pyramid
05:41
Apr 23, 2012
Abhishek and Abhinav Sinha created a software program that allows migrant workers in India to send money using a cellphone. Now their company, Eko Financial Services Ltd., i...
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Rebuilding Toi Market
06:23
Apr 10, 2012
Jamii Bora is the largest microfinance institution in Kenya. Many of the members live in Kibera, a Nairobi slum with more than a million inhabitants. On the evening of 30 De...
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Microfinance Now: Nachiket Mor
10:21
Mar 26, 2012
“Anything you do in India, whether you set up a large business or a small company in a sense implicitly speaks to the problem of poverty because we are a very poor country,”...
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Microfinance Now: Graham Wright
09:28
Feb 5, 2012
In this interview Graham Wright, Program Director for Microsave, talks about the challenges of developing appropriate financial products for poor clients. “One of the challe...
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Microfinance Now: Bob Christen
09:31
Feb 4, 2012
Imagine life without financial services, says Bob Christen, President and CEO of the Boulder Microfinance Institute in this interview: “How would you do anything?” Christen ...
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Microfinance Now: Dean Karlan
07:41
Feb 4, 2012
Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics at Yale University, discusses the way in which the practice of microfinance is evolving as more and more is learned about the needs and u...
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Microfinance Now: Ashok Singh
08:14
Feb 3, 2012
In India, 40% of people have no means of identification. As a result, many who are entitled to receive government benefits fail to receive them. In August 2009 the Governmen...
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Microfinance Now: Bindu Ananth
11:18
Feb 3, 2012
In this interview Bindu Ananth, President of IFMR Trust, discusses an innovative approach to wealth management for poor and low income households that is being rolled out in...
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Microfinance Now: Johannes Kling
05:32
Jan 8, 2012
In this short interview Johannes Kling of DD-DEDO describes the state of branchless banking in Colombia. Mobile banking has great potential for reducing the cost of financia...
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Microfinance Now: Marcos Bader
06:45
Dec 20, 2011
Mobile and agent banking technologies are shaking up the financial services market in Brazil. In this interview Marcos Bader, general director for Bradesco, the largest bank...
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Microfinance Now: Roar Bjaerum
04:17
Dec 20, 2011
Pakistan is one of the fastest-growing markets for mobile and agent banking. In this interview Roar Bjaerum of Telenor explains why branchless banking is taking off across t...
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About CGAP
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is an independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world's poor. Our "Microfinance Now" series features interviews with leading figures in the world of microfinance.
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- Written and Produced by Jeanette Thomas
- Camera Peter Cairns
