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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
mai 3, 2012 - 1:46am de David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
If you follow microfinance blogs, you probably know that the World Bank has released a big database called Global Findex. With muscular funding from the Gates Foundation, the World Bank ran an ambitious polling project to learn about what financial services people use and how they use them—or why they don’t. Some 150,000 people were interviewed in 148 countries. And that’s just the first round: the surveys will be repeated, the grant lasting 10 years. It’s clear ...
mai 2, 2012 - 12:00am de Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/529 A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No.114 May 02, 2012 To All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks Madam / Sir, Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 80 million to the Government of the Republic of Burundi Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an ...
avril 19, 2012 - 3:45pm de GiveWell Blog
Since GiveWell recommended the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) in November 2011, SCI has received about $1.4 million in unrestricted funds ($500,000 of which we directly attribute to GiveWell’s recommendation), of which $1.1 million remains to be spent. We have spoken with and met with SCI to discuss its plans for using these funds. Funds spent to date SCI has made grants of $100,000 and $80,000 to Yemen and Senegal respectively for deworming ...
avril 15, 2012 - 10:38am de Microfinance Nigeria
From The Financial With the Millennium Development Goals falling due in 2015, three Nigerian states—Adamawa, Nasarawa and Ondo—are rolling out major healthcare improvements with the support of the World Bank and other partners. As a result, over 9 million people, of whom 3.8 million are women ...
avril 15, 2012 - 10:32am de Microfinance Africa
From The Financial With the Millennium ...
février 29, 2012 - 3:07pm de Microfinance Nigeria
By Michael Ouma, The East African Kenya is set to host the sixth edition of Africa IT Exhibitions and Conferences’ (AITEC) Banking & Mobile Money COMESA meeting from March 7 to 8 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi. The two-day meeting, whose theme is “Showcasing the Region’s Banking and Mobile Payment Innovation Successes,” has been co-organised by COMESA Business Council, aims to address the key issues and challenges ...
février 29, 2012 - 3:05pm de Microfinance Africa
By Michael Ouma, The East African Kenya is set to host the sixth edition of Africa IT Exhibitions and Conferences’ (AITEC) Banking & Mobile Money COMESA meeting from March 7 to 8 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi. The two-day meeting, whose theme is ...
janvier 26, 2012 - 11:45am de CGAP Microfinance Blog
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to be a region plagued with challenges but ripe with opportunities in microfinance. Just one in five households has access to formal financial services, with high operating expenses as well as a general lack of financial ...
janvier 23, 2012 - 7:00am de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
When the millennium development goals (MDGs) were developed, estimates of their cost were used to argue that rich countries should give more aid. The estimates varied – in 2001, the UN suggested that achieving the goals would cost an extra $61bn. In 2002, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa, Shantayanan Devarajan, argued for ...
décembre 12, 2011 - 10:59pm de Savings Revolution blog
In a small village in central Burundi, 25 teenage girls stand in a single file line, eagerly awaiting the next word that their training agent will announce. “Water!”  She says.  Most of the girls in the line quickly step to their left; one steps to her right.  To this girl, the training agent says, “Did you understand ...
septembre 28, 2011 - 6:00am de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In Africa, we used to track malaria by metrics of despair – cases and deaths, wasted life and squandered opportunity. We tracked numbing statistics like the million Africans who died annually from this preventable disease a decade ago. Today, however, we track malaria by statistics of progress and momentum. We count the 11 countries that have reduced malaria ...
septembre 13, 2011 - 1:30pm de e-MFP news
Terrafina Microfinance is recruiting two programme advisors for the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi) The closing date for applications is Friday, 23rd September 2011. For more information click here Archive:  Archive
juin 16, 2011 - 12:11pm de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Today, the Day of the African Child, commemorates the day in 1976 when
juin 15, 2011 - 12:07pm de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Everyone involved in global development has met someone whose work has been inspirational. Who has overcome what seem like impossible circumstances to improve the lives of those around them.The
juin 7, 2011 - 3:01pm de Microfinance Nigeria
From AllAfrica.com Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (“Ecobank”), the leading pan-African banking group, and Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading global telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to promote mobile banking services across Africa. Under the terms of the MOU, Ecobank and Airtel plan to explore ...
mai 17, 2011 - 3:51pm de MIX Recent Features
Le rapport Afrique subsaharienne 2010 Benchmarking et Analyse du secteur de la ...
mai 5, 2011 - 6:54pm de MIX Recent Features
The Sub-Saharan Africa Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report 2010 ...

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