The reference to shoes? Sorry - You’ll just have to read the blog!
All in The Industry
Six Things to be Curious About
I came up with the following list of six questions that, to me, are much more interesting than Model and Methodology questions.
Thank You Payments...
When you take a loan, and you have to pay back more than you took, what do you call that extra money you pay?
Featured Article: Coming your way (like it or not) Digital Savings Groups
It's time to set aside everything you know about Savings Group bookkeeping, security, procedures and cash management. Open your mind VERY wide while you read this article.
How it All Began...
GODIAMU’s staff include women who were there in the very first days of MMD - I felt honored to be in their presence!
What we need to ask about micro-insurance
Micro-insurance is great, but what does it cost?
Ten Things I Used to Know about Savings Groups
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Tool vs. Machine
The essence of Savings Groups is not bookkeeping. In fact, bookkeeping is kinda a drag for most people...
Please Shut Your Marketing Mouth
This is a plea for us all to shut our marketing mouth for a while when we are talking about Savings Groups.
In Defense of Microcredit
I'm guilty of having dissed microcredit. A lot. Here's a bit of a mea culpa, and an acknowledgement of all the good things the microcredit boom accomplished.
Time for a deep breath
Weren’t we saying the same things about microcredit in the 1980’s and ’90’s? And then… didn’t things turn a little, uh, sour?
The Microfinance Meltdown - Crisis or Opportunity for Savings Groups
Where the rest of the world sees problems, entrepreneurs see opportunities.
Whither the Savings Groups?
In the introduction of a recent recruitment notice:
Trim Tabs and Savings Groups
Good development work is about putting in small inputs which help existing systems work better.
ROSCAs Revisited!
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) are groups in which every member contributes the same amount every meeting
Shared Value Communities - Trust, Sharing, Collective Intelligence
A famous 16th century Portuguese poet, Luis Vaz de Camões, once wrote: necessity refines ingenuity ...
Five Best Savings Group Ideas of 2013
Unlike the bad ideas that have been recycled year after year, the good ideas of 2013 are all new this year, which is quite exciting!
Afrigadget
Local innovation is inspiring.
Honey Bee
Here is the most delightful magazine on local innovations I know of
Alex Counts at the FI2020 Global Forum
WE thought his remarks about how to do technology right were so pertinent that we copy them here.