What holds true across the spectrum of entrepreneurs also holds true for microfinance customers, perhaps even more. I keep pointing out how the microfinance industry has been given a specific mandate based on a specific customer base. Microfinance is no

Life indeed, is strange. While everyone else struggled, those at the base of the pyramid — the microfinance borrowers, the ones dubbed hapless — apparently were among the first to immediately pick up the threads of productive life after the

This is a question that has been in the air for quite a while. What should be the choice of employment for those who are right at the base of the pyramid? The answer lies in the immediate economic environment

Bengal nursery owner shows how “The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time” – Thomas A. Edison. She might have studied only up to Class 12, maybe she has never heard of Edison or