CGAP’s Microfinance Blog posted a short piece on the risk of delinquency in microfinance that occurs when people take on too much debt by applying for microloans from multiple lenders simultaneously. This is a significant issue, something we have written about…

Ajaita Shah is the Founder of Frontier Markets. She has 4 years of microfinance experience as a Credit Plus Manager at Ujjivan Financial Services, and Director for Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS). She has consulted with the Social Performance Task Force…

• Investing in Indian Microfinance – Swimming Fully Clothed! | VCCircle – Great guest post at VC Circle by folks from Unitus Capital making an argument for investing in the Indian Microfinance sector

Pluggd.in’s continuing coverage of Social Entrepreneurship, the topical theme for the fortnight

• Social Entrepreneurship –…

• Hillary calls for inclusive education - Teach India and Teach for India, two new initiatives were both covered here on TCI
• NComputing Deployment Wins Prestigious Award for Social Impact – PCQuest honors Indian state of Andhra Pradesh for using NComputing to empower 1.8 million students…

• Microfinance’s  small-town success attracts venture investors - Livemint story on the increasing Venture-Capital activity in the microfinance sector in India
• Poverty of will - R.Ramkumar from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) argues that new UPA government’s first Budget is marked by the absence…

• De-traumatise education in India, says Sibal – Cuttting-edge education policy on the works in India, thanks to the new HRD minister
• Microfinance agenda for the new government - Via @balanchander (CEO of United Prosperity) – Great policy agenda for streaming microfinance regulation in India
• Nandan…

• A Tamil Nadu MFI Gets $4.25M From MicroVest, UEF, Vinod Khosla - Grama Vidiyal is the largest MFI in the state of Tamil Nadu
• Kerala, Karnataka based MFIs raise funds - Looks like its getting pretty hot – more MFIs investments spotted!
• Social Entrepreneurship – Change.org:…

• Drawing a Line Under Poverty in *India* - WSJ Delhi Chief offers his criticism of NREGA, using the findings from a recent World Bank Study
• Food & Agri Business To Require $25-30 Bn Investment in Next 3 Years - Investment in rural business and microfinance…

• India to compile database on seasonal flu
  No details on the number of flu infections and mortality are available for India
• IRCTC Records Rs. 6 Billion worth of transactions in April 2009
  IRCTC recorded Rs. 6 billion in the month of April 2009…

From MicroCapital.org:

Advanced Reflective Education and Training (ART) on Community based Development Finance, December 1-12, 2009, in Tamilnadu, India, presented by the Social Tata-Dhan Academy and sponsored by the DHAN Foundation.