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August 2010 -

Ziv Tepman interviews Ajay Tannirkulam about a project which aims to bring complete financial services to the poor and unbanked through Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services (KGFS).

August 2010 -

Randomized Controlled Trials - CMF Head of Analytics Ajay Tannirkulam discusses the importance of the RCT methodology in studying development with intern Ziv Tepman and explains how this approach is implemented.

July 2010 -

The Story of CMF - CMF's first employee Lakshmi Krishnan speaks to intern Ziv Tepman about how the organization came about in 2005, what it was like in the early days, and how it has evolved since then.

January 2010 -

Consumer Protection II- Akhand discusses issues related to Consumer Protection with CMF Senior Researcher Minakshi Ramji, with the backdrop of the 2009 Microfinance India Summit in Delhi. Minakshi has conducted research on financial inclusion, financial literacy among many other topics at CMF.

Read more about Minakshi's research at CMF here, here,here and here..

November 2009 -

Client Protection- CMF Research Associate Akhand Tiwari discusses with Kate McKee, senior policy analyst at CGAP, issues surrounding Client Protection, a topic featured prominently at the Microfinance India Summit in Delhi this year.

October 2009 -

Data Collection Part II - CMF Research Associate Akhand Tiwari conducts a round table discussion on the importance of Data Collection at the Centre for Micro Finance with Research Associate Anand Shukla, Survey Operations Team member Projjal Saha and Head of Analytics Ajay Tannirkulam. This portion of the discussion focuses on innovations in Data Collection, with an emphasis on CMF's piloting of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).

October 2009 -

Data Collection Part I - CMF Research Associate Akhand Tiwari conducts a round table discussion on the importance of Data Collection at the Centre for Micro Finance with Research Associate Anand Shukla, Survey Operations Team member Projjal Saha and Head of Analytics Ajay Tannirkulam. Part one of this wide-ranging discussion focuses on what can go wrong in data collection and the procedures for quality control utilized by CMF in the field. Some of the jargon included in this podcast include "investigator," another word for surveyors who conduct questionnaires in the field, "monitors," who checkup on the work of the investigators, "back checks" which are random returns to re-conduct a survey with the same respondent to make sure the original investigator did a good job, and "scrutiny," which when a completed questionnaire is examined by a monitor for mistakes by the investigator.

June 2009 -

Dan Kopf interviews CMF Senior Researcher Doug Johnson about the intricacies of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and his research on the scheme.

Read more about his research here.

May 2009 -

Dan Kopf interviews CMF Research Associate Nilesh Fernando about his project on the design and implementation of a Weather Insurance product in Gujarat; the two discuss the conceptual as well as practical aspects of this innovative product.

Read more about his research here.

February 2009 -

Dan Kopf interviews Joanne Yoong about the provision of insecticide treated bednets through microfinance channels and potential policy recommendations

November 2008 -

Dan Kopf interviews fellow CMF Research Associate Emmerich Davies on his project which focuses on flexible repayment schedules

Read more about his research here.

October 2008 -

Dan Kopf interviews fellow CMF Research Associate Jyoti Mukhopadhyay on his project which focuses on the Ultra-Poor

Read more about his research here.