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MICROFRANCHISING

Microfranchising is a business model that attempts to adapt some of the traditional franchising concepts to small businesses in the developing world. It seeks to provide replicable business plans to small entrepreneurs in developing countries by using methodologies developed in the traditional franchising model. microfranchising attempts to follow in the footsteps of the microfinance and microcredit models in developing countries.

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An Invisible Revolution in Rural Indiamore

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Chartbusters: five top Venture Capital deals of 2009more

on to know the name and shape of the top five VC deals of the year gone by. Microfinance tops the list: Hyderabad-based...

Review of the year in Katinemore

Kavuma, sit in on a meeting of a village savings and loans group in Katine. He found the microfinance initiative was...

Mobile telephony best model to achieve financial inclusionmore

RBI deputy governor KC Chakraborty had mentioned some time ago that technology can play a key role in microfinance and...

Giving back: Holiday gift ideas for travelers | Travel Wisemore

had some explaining to do recently after a blogger raised questions about how funds are disbursed by the microfinance...

Transcript: Nancy Lindborgmore

And then, how do we go beyond the traditional? Lindborg: Well, I think we've already gone beyond. Microfinance, you...

Relief After Calamitymore

ago, we started the Bank Andara. It's a wholesale bank of banks that tries to transform their microfinance sector.

Intro to Microfranchising, Social Enterprise, BOPmore

Great collection of resources and information.

TED's Next Challengemore

Reid Hoffman during his talk. His proposal: Create microgroups targeted at solving individual issues such as water,...

The Next Generation of Microfinance: Microfranchisingmore

Great article describing the logistics and potential impact of microfranchising.

A New Political Darling: The Entrepreneurmore

microlending (the practice of making very small loans to businesses) has proved underwhelming for businesses on average.

Malaysia is keen to enhance Islamic finance sector: Zeti [Arab News, J...more

in non-urban areas. In addition, the central bank is also allowing these banks to open a further 10 microfinance...

Microfinance- A magical economic panacea?more

By: Priyanka Kanwar Six months back, like many others, I was enthralled by the Microfinance 'success story' in India.

Seminar on microfinance and poverty eradicationmore

KOCHI: Finance Minister T. M. Thomas Isaac will inaugurate a two-day seminar on microfinance and poverty eradication...

Can Impact Investing Outperform the Market?more

opportunities are only in private equity, but many are available to the average investor as well. Examples include...

Grameen Foundation and Microsoft Announce Initiative to Expand Value a...more

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India Financial Inclusion fund raises $90 mln kittymore

million. Advised by Hyderabad-based Caspian Advisors, IFIF has raised commitments from the likes of UKs CDC Group,...

Next wave of innovations will be driven by sustainability: CK Prahaladmore

get money from a money lender at 250% and then I go to self-help group where I get microfinance at 18%, is that...

Microfranchising's Greatest Assetmore

Why microfranchising will be successful in the social sector.

McSocial Enterprise franchises could be the futuremore

'Interestingly enough we've turned to McDonalds for the business model of expansion which is most in keeping with the...

Rockefeller Foundation, Incofin, Grassroots Capital and Draper Fisher ...more

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)-- IQPC, The Wall Street Microfinance Alliance and the New York Microfinance Club have teamed...

MSMEs and Microfinance occupy mindspace: Milagrow and MCX leadmore

IPO artists would cost more than the money they need. The other sources of funds such as MFI (microfinance...

Affordable housing takes wing as micro-finance cos step inmore

any income tax returns to date. All that was now set to change. Enter MAS Financial Services, a microfinance...

Leveraging the Power of Markets with Microfranchisingmore

Microfranchising is a market-based approach to help alleviate poverty and build economic self reliance.

Helping the poor just got popularmore

the Nobel prize in 2006 along with the Grameen Bank he founded for the poverty-bound entrepreneurs of Bangladesh,...

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