Whose sustainability counts?: BASIX's long march from microfinance to livelihoods Harper, Malcolm

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Harper, Malcolm

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Publication details: 2012 Sage Publications New DelhiDescription: x, 286 pISBN:

9788132110088

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DDC classification:

332 H2W4

Summary: From its inception in 1996, BASIX's one of the largest microfinance institutions in India has realized that focusing solely on loans will not improve the lives of its poor clients. Recognizing that the complex problems of poverty require complex solutions, it has melded financial services with livelihood development and institutional sustainability to achieve its goals, all the while maintaining impeccable ethical standards and practices of social inclusion that give voice to the poor who rely on the financial services BASIX provides them.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From its inception in 1996, BASIX's one of the largest microfinance institutions in India has realized that focusing solely on loans will not improve the lives of its poor clients. Recognizing that the complex problems of poverty require complex solutions, it has melded financial services with livelihood development and institutional sustainability to achieve its goals, all the while maintaining impeccable ethical standards and practices of social inclusion that give voice to the poor who rely on the financial services BASIX provides them.

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