Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Burkina Faso:
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mai 24, 2012 - 9:36pm
de Kiva.org
In February 2000, eight women in Burkina Faso got together to realize a dream. These were women who had managed, in spite of all odds, to start businesses. Each knew firsthand how difficult it is to become an entrepreneur with limited resources and ...
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mai 20, 2012 - 5:16pm
de Kiva.org
"We’re a very poor country that’s very rich in culture."The Kiva coordinator at our partner Micro Start said this to our fellow when she first arrived. It aptly summarizes the dominant characteristics of this landlocked west African country.Burkina Faso, home to 15 million people, has one of the lowest GDP per ...
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mai 18, 2012 - 1:25am
de Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
· Data from all 13 rounds of our Sri Lanka microenterprise survey, along with questionnaires and do files are now all up on Chris Woodruff’s website at Warwick.
· NGO Performance discusses the misuse of RCTs in saying the blindingly obvious …”They conclude that one project had a big ...
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mai 16, 2012 - 10:00am
de 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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mai 12, 2012 - 11:04pm
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is tempting to wonder how much of an appetite Barack Obama will have for dinner on Thursday evening. That afternoon, ahead of the two-day meeting of the G8 at Camp David, which kicks off on Friday, he will announce what is currently being called "the new alliance to increase food security and nutrition".It's an initiative by members of the G8 ...
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mai 11, 2012 - 5:06am
de Mundo Microfinanzas
(Crédito: World Economic Forum)(Mundo Microfinanzas) La Schwab Foundation dio a conocer en Addis Abeba los cinco ganadores del premio Emprendedores Sociales del Año 2012, en el marco del Foro Económico Mundial para África que culmina este viernes en la capital etíope. Ellos son:Bethlehmen Tilahun Alemu, ...
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mai 9, 2012 - 10:03pm
de Kiva.org
Imagine waking up at 5 a.m., working for six hours in a rice field, then having to go sell goods at a crowded market for another six? As I sit here writing this in an air-conditioned office, I can't help but feel like my workload is trivial by comparison.Rice -- commonly referred to as the "gift from God" -- is a staple of the Vietnamese ...
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mai 3, 2012 - 10:00am
de CGAP Technology Blog
This is the fifth and final post in our series on remittances and branchless banking. You can read the first four posts here. So far, we have highlighted the emerging success factors and challenges featured in our 2012 landscaping exercise. Paolo Baltao from Globe’s GCASH shared with us the lessons learned over a period of eight years during which time he led one of the first ...
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mai 2, 2012 - 6:00am
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In west Africa last year, a number of officials stated that growing unrest in the Sahel zone constituted the most pressing threat to regional security and stability.While global media interest focused on internal security issues facing the region's economic powerhouse, Nigeria, actors on the ground, particularly in francophone ...
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avril 19, 2012 - 10:03pm
de Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
WSBI works with savings banks in the developing world to increase the number of savings accounts for the poor. The ten participating banks are KPOSB Kenya, LPB Lesotho, PBU Uganda, SAPB South ...
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avril 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
de Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/495
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 106
April 12, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 150 million
to the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated July 21, ...
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avril 2, 2012 - 1:00pm
de MicroCapital
“Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011;” by Angus McCrone, et al; published by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance; July 2011; 61 pages; available at:
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mars 25, 2012 - 5:04am
de MicroCapital
Freedom from Hunger, a US-based non-governmental organization that aims to alleviate poverty, and Oikocredit, a Dutch cooperative investment fund, plan to partner with six microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru to implement Freedom from Hunger’s microfinance and health protection model. Freedom from Hunger and Oikocredit have worked with the MFIs to better understand client needs and develop health packages to improve both health knowledge and access ...
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mars 15, 2012 - 12:37pm
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Water and water crises will dominate the news this week from Marseille, where the sector convenes for its triennial global meeting, the World Water Forum. Some 33,000 participants attended the last one, in Istanbul in 2009, and similar numbers are expected this ...
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mars 1, 2012 - 9:42pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities.
This thinking connects a series of case studies found in a new publication by the Food and ...
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mars 1, 2012 - 9:37pm
de Microfinance Africa
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national ...
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février 3, 2012 - 10:00am
de CGAP Technology Blog
I was sitting in a little room in the outskirts of Accra listening to a group of tomato sellers talk about the financial tools they use to manage their finances. As a part of
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janvier 30, 2012 - 10:46am
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Drought and famine are not extreme events. They are not anomalies. They are merely the sharp end of a global food system that is built on inequality, imbalances and – ultimately – fragility. And they are the regular upshot of a climate that is increasingly hostile and problematic for food production across huge swathes of the developing ...
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janvier 28, 2012 - 3:27pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
On January 27, 2012 MFTransparency will unveil the microloan pricing data collected as part of the Transparent Pricing Initiatives in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. Concluding months of research and analysis, MFTransparency will present transparent prices for microloans offered in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania, information never before available.
Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania are the fourth, fifth and sixth countries in the
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janvier 28, 2012 - 3:23pm
de Microfinance Africa
On January 27, 2012 MFTransparency will unveil the microloan pricing data collected as part of the Transparent Pricing Initiatives in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. Concluding months of research and analysis, MFTransparency will present transparent prices for ...
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