{"id":471,"date":"2014-11-22T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.knowledgegap.biz\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-10-01T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:13:33","slug":"announcements-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congratulations<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>We congratulate Mr. Binod Bihari Nayak for his recently published (soon to be available in the market) book on &#8220;The Synergy of Microfinance.&#8221; \u00a0From the desk of the publisher:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Synergy of Microfinance underlines the significance of innovative financial and risk management tools and non-financial complementary services by microfinance institutions in poverty alleviation. It undertakes a nuanced analysis of financial instruments\u2014 microcredit, microsavings, microinsurance, microleasing and payment systems for money transfer\u2014 and non-financial services such as social intermediation, livelihood promotion and access to broader market place.<\/p>\n<p>Given the diminished expectations on microcredit impact, the book highlights results from randomized control trial (RCT)-based studies around the world. It argues that exclusive access to microcredit alone may not suffice in alleviating poverty on a mass scale and could pose a financial risk for poor households or households that over-borrow. There is also a discussion on the Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis of 2010, and the developments that took place in its aftermath. <a title=\"The Synergy of Microfinance \" href=\"http:\/\/www.uk.sagepub.com\/books\/Book244498\">Read on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations We congratulate Mr. Binod Bihari Nayak for his recently published (soon to be available in the market) book on &#8220;The Synergy of Microfinance.&#8221; \u00a0From the desk of the publisher: &#8220;The Synergy of Microfinance underlines the significance of innovative financial and risk management tools and non-financial complementary services by microfinance institutions in poverty alleviation. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/?p=471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcements<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.odishagateway.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}