[Editor's Note: I originally wrote about the education social enterprise "TREE Society" (Training Resources for Enabling Enterprises Society) back in April. In the past few months, they began their fifth pilot (at Timbaktu Collective) and also revamped their website. So what I've done is split the original post (it was a bit long) - this [...]
[Editor's Note: Last week, I had an engaging phone chat with Gouthami, co-Founder & CEO of Travel Another India (TAI), a rural responsible tourism social enterprise registered in Chennai. This post is based on our conversation, subsequent email exchanges and related research.] Backstory Gouthami’s 18-year tenure in development agencies reached an inflection point during her [...]
Our review post on Travel Another India (TIA) – One Village at a Time was published today. Here are the rest of the wonderful pictures. Rural Locales Accommodations Activities
It recently struck me that I should start adding a “What I like about <enterprise x>” section to each post. The section would include social metrics the enterprise is purportedly trying to influence. Instead of editing scores of old posts, I decided to do a round-up post, organizing the posts by category. Agriculture Our first [...]
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s book Poor Economics continues to live up to its promise. If you’ve missed it, here’s the teaser excerpts I captured last week. I’ve been tweeting insights from the book fairly regularly (using the hashtag #banerjeeduflo). But not all insights can be packaged into 140 character tweets. So here are some [...]
Earlier this week, TechSangam was the first blog to report on Eko Financial’s $5.5 million funding round from Creation Investments. TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy followed with this really nice coverage on Eko. Sure TechCrunch hardly covers the Indian startup ecosystem but I just couldn’t resist the we first jibe. When Abhishek Sinha (Eko co-founder & CEO) [...]
[Editor's Note: I had a brief conversation with Upmanyu Patil (CEO of Sakhi Retail) on the sidelines of Sankalp Forum 2011. Last week, I followed up with a phone conversation. This post is the result of those conversations and related research.] The parent organization of Sakhi Retail is Mumbai-based Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) – an [...]
Our good friends at PRS Legislative Services took 10-years of corruption case data (2000-2009) from National Crime Records Bureau and created a very useful visualization using Tableau. I’ll start off with some surprising observations before presenting the detailed graphical trends. The top 5 states, in descending order of total cases registered, are Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Orissa, [...]
I cannot recall the last time I looked forward so much to reading a book on economics. But after reading the reviews of Poor Economics (by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo) and hearing from friends who’ve read it, I find myself with a hopeful anticipation. I’m including excerpts from the book’s foreword which will hopefully [...]
World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1
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World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 2
World Bank India Development Marketplace: Finalist Review Part 1
Artha Platform, closed social enterprise version of Angel List, announces Challenge
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