P.N. Vasudevan - Equitas

Global X interviews P. N. Vasudevan, an entrepreneurial leader with a background in commercial finance who is now CEO of Equitas, a for-profit microfinance institution working in Bangladesh and India.  

He remembers noticing that poor women usually don't have a place at the table because they don't bring food, "but microfinance creates a perceptible shift in the power balance" when women start bringing revenues.

Microfinance helped P. N. Vasudevan open his eyes. As he tells Global X, he now realizes that he never noticed women cooking on the sidewalk by his house and young children defecating on the street without any supervision, then going back to eating without being cleaned up.

"I never saw it in the past, even though it happened every day, but I just never noticed." 

Watch this short interview then read the Unitus case study.