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Prashant Thakker

Writing for PS since 2013
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Prashant Thakker is Global Business Head of Microfinance at Standard Chartered.

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Microfinance’s Macro Potential

Microfinance’s Macro Potential

Dec 17, 2013 Prashant Thakker proposes a three-part strategy to ensure that microfinance becomes the industry that the world's poor and excluded need.

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