Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Bangladesh:
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May 22, 2012 - 2:38pm
from BRAC Blog
The following article was originally posted by Anik Ashraf on the International Growth Centre (ICG) website. The video was created by ICG based on recent research initiative lead by Robin Burgess to assess the success of BRAC's Ultra Poor programme in Bangladesh.
A new way of helping the ...
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May 22, 2012 - 9:00am
from Acumen Fund Blog
Below is the full-text of Jacqueline Novogratz’s Commencement Address given at Gettysburg College on May 20, 2012.
Thank you, President Riggs.
David, you’re a hard act to follow. In the past 24 hours as I was listening to your classmates speak, I was thinking that I finally have a sense of what it means to be “Gettysburg Great.” I am so honored to be with you and so honored to be receiving this degree with Karl Mattson who’s such a wonderful person. And I am ...
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May 21, 2012 - 5:43pm
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) of Bangladesh ...MicroCapitalThe Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), the supervisor of ...
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May 21, 2012 - 5:30pm
from MicroCapital
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), the supervisor of NGO microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh, reportedly has advised MFIs to obtain permission by June 30 for sertvices offered other than microcredit. Failure to obtain permission by the deadline is to result in legal action against such MFIs. An MRA official explained that the reason for the new regulation is to “ensure that MFIs’ surplus funds are used in the targeted poverty alleviation purposes.”
As of 2012, ...
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May 21, 2012 - 5:37am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Yunus Centre(Mundo Microfinanzas) El miércoles pasado el gobierno de Bangladesh anunció la creación de una comisión que investigará al Grameen Bank y a 54 empresas a las que atribuye un vínculo con el banco de microcréditos fundado por Muhammad Yunus.El anuncio es, hasta el momento, el último eslabón de una ...
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May 20, 2012 - 3:21am
from BRAC Blog
As parents, we are always curious about examination results, how we can get admission for our children in good schools and how to give education through private tuition etc. Second and third generation students’ parents can think in this way, but what about those students who are the first in their family to be going to school? An untrained teacher in a classroom ...
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May 19, 2012 - 5:42pm
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microcredit Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh Revokes ...MicroCapitalThe Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) of Bangladesh reportedly has announced ...
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May 19, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) of Bangladesh reportedly has announced that plans are in place to appoint administrators to observe troubled microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the country. MRA currently has the authority to remove chairpersons and chief executive officers found guilty of financial or administrative irregularities, but it lacks the power to appoint replacements. According to a statement attributed to MRA Executive Vice Chairman Khandakar Muzharul Haque, ...
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May 18, 2012 - 5:00pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
By David Roodman -
RT @TilmanEhrbeck: Great @theeconomist article on #microfinance for the ultra-poor. Is this BRAC though, not Bandhan? http://t.co/mqUnHXbg
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May 17, 2012 - 8:25pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Mandy De Waal, Daily Maverick
Loan sharks and micro-finance offices have mushroomed in South Africa’s inner-city centres. The lure is attractive – borrow R10,000 ...
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May 17, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Microfinance Africa
From AFP
DHAKA — Bangladesh on Wednesday set up a commission on the future of pioneering Microfinance institution Grameen Bank and 54 related businesses headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
Yunus was sacked as the head of Grameen Bank last year ...
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May 17, 2012 - 6:46am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Luxembourg: "ALFI: clarified definition needed for Responsible Investing Fund"
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May 17, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The Boma Project, a nonprofit organization in northern Kenya that aims to improve the ability of women to earn their own incomes, recently has become the first African organization to be certified by Grameen Foundation, a US-based nonprofit, on the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) Advanced Standards of Use. PPI is a tool for estimating and tracking the poverty rates of their clients. The Standards of Use establish the criteria an organization must meet to accurately and transparently ...
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May 16, 2012 - 5:52pm
from BRAC Blog
This post was written by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown after his visit to BRAC's education programme in South Sudan and originally posted on the Gordon & Sarah Brown blog.
Celina stands at the door of her hut hugging her one year old daughter ...
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May 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.Data in the World Bank's
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May 16, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The threat by a UK-based hedge fund to sue Coal India, one of the world's largest coalmine operators, has thrown into sharp relief the crucial question of whether the terms of trade and investment are skewed in favour of rich countries and multinational companies.The Children's Investment Fund ...
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May 16, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
Wincor Nixdorf, a Germany-based information technology (IT) provider reportedly has announced it is supplying banks in Bangladesh with automated teller machine (ATM) technology in an effort to increase access to financial services via the self-service channel. According to the company, approximately 330 ATMs have been installed with the help of Wincor Nixdorf’s partner IT Consultants Limited. A total of 500 are expected to be put in place by October 2012. Wincor Nixdorf’s ProCash 280 ...
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May 15, 2012 - 2:21am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Bangladesh to probe Grameen Bank and linked firms"
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May 14, 2012 - 2:55pm
from BRAC Blog
The following was originally posted by BRAC USA Program Manager - Communications Michelle Chaplin on the Half the Sky website.
Mother's Day is about being thankful for one of the most important women in your life: your mother. She gave birth to you (one of the most dangerous things a woman can do), fed you, clothed you, and made sure you went to school (and did your homework), among ...
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May 14, 2012 - 5:20am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Los últimos años han dejado ver el interés creciente por soluciones basadas en el mercado que puedan abordar los problemas de la pobreza. En especial, inversiones orientadas a los denominados negocios inclusivos, esto es, actividades empresariales que involucren a los pobres en cadenas de generación ...
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