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mai 9, 2012 - 3:11pm
de MicroCapital
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 2012, HSBC staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be deployed to provide technical assistance to ...
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avril 25, 2012 - 1:42pm
de MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Limited, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, reportedly has provided a loan of USD 1.5 million to the Jordan Micro Credit Company (Tamweelcom), a Jordan-based microfinance institution (MFI). The investment is expected to fund loans to approximately 4,000 micro-entrepreneurs inJordanover an unspecified timeframe. Grameen-Jameel made its first loan to Tamweelcom in 2008 in the amount of USD ...
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avril 14, 2012 - 9:26am
de Microfinance Nigeria
From Zawya
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in collaboration with USAID and CGAP jointly organized “Iraq Microfinance Policy Forum” on April 10 & 11, 2012 in Erbil-Iraq, for setting up Policy Goals for Microfinance in Iraq, which was participated by high Government functionaries from Iraq Government, ...
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avril 14, 2012 - 9:22am
de Microfinance Africa
From Zawya
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in collaboration with USAID and CGAP jointly ...
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mars 22, 2012 - 1:59pm
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
There has been a girls' school at Irbid refugee camp in northern Jordan since 1952. No one could tell me how many girls attended the school at that time, but now it operates a shift system to cope with demand. About 850 girls attend the imaginatively-titled Irbid camp girls' school number 1 five days a week, meeting for classes between 7am and 11.30am. ...
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mars 9, 2012 - 5:53pm
de Kiva.org
We value being in tune with the latest news on microfinance and poverty alleviation. Kiva Scholar is designed to share research and developments in the field, and open the conversation up to you!This week, we'd like to pass along an article written by former Kiva Fellow Julie Shea for the Center for Financial Inclusion Blog. Titled "
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février 10, 2012 - 7:00am
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The call to invest in adolescent girls has been sweeping the development field in recent years. Among the supporters of this policy are key stakeholders such as the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the World Bank and several UN agencies.In part, this is ...
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février 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
de MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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janvier 5, 2012 - 9:07pm
de MicroCapital
SANAD Fund for MSME, a Luxembourg-based investment fund, has invested in Lebanon for the first time with a USD 5 million loan to BLC Bank sal, a Lebanese commercial bank. The loan will allow BLC to expand its lending to small and medium-sized enterprises.
SANAD Fund for MSME (SANAD) provides medium- and long-term debt and equity financing to commercial banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other financial institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the intent ...
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décembre 29, 2011 - 9:05am
de MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, recently announced in its first “partners’ meeting” that it has reached 1.5 million clients through its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) [1]. Grameen-Jameel, which deems itself a “social business,” supports MFIs by providing loans for early-stage MFIs and guarantees for MFIs seeking to access local-currency commercial loans. As of November 2010, Grameen-Jameel ...
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décembre 8, 2011 - 11:35pm
de CGAP Microfinance Blog
The Arab Spring took everyone by surprise. There was a series of underlying factors, among them being a young and growing population, the need for improved education levels for men and women, and decreasing fertility rates, all leading to a vast number of people seeking better economic and social opportunities and ...
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septembre 26, 2011 - 12:09pm
de Microfinance Africa
From Ameinfo.com
The Citi Foundation, Citi’s philanthropic arm, recently extended $155,000 in grant funds to four selective Lebanese institutions in support of youth education, entrepreneurship and microfinance causes.
This included:
• American University of Beirut (AUB): Through a series of workshops targeting 50 Lebanese family businesses, Citi Foundation and the Olayan School of Business (OSB) will deliver a Family ...
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septembre 19, 2011 - 11:32pm
de Kiva.org
This month’s Passport Series focuses on Lebanon! Lebanon is a country with stunning mountain scenery, a beautiful Mediterranean climate, and a highly diverse population. Follow us throughout the month of September as we learn about Lebanon’s background, its microfinance sector, and Kiva’s ...
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septembre 14, 2011 - 4:22pm
de Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
This latest “Top Picks of the Microfinance Blogosphere” swoops in for a closer look at spurious links between energy drinks and microfinance, examines ways of opening up impact investing to the masses, maps out Lebanese microfinance, and more.
“Why is it illegal for me to invest even $100 in the business of my choice?” asks a post by Nilima Achwal on the NextBillion ...
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septembre 12, 2011 - 5:48pm
de Kiva.org
This month’s Passport Series focuses on Lebanon! Lebanon is a country with stunning mountain scenery, a beautiful Mediterranean climate, and a highly diverse population. Follow us throughout the month of September as we learn about Lebanon’s background, its microfinance sector, and Kiva’s presence within ...
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septembre 8, 2011 - 8:22pm
de Kiva.org
Our first guest speaker for our series on nonfinancial services is Chris Dunford from Freedom from Hunger. He will be discussing Health Care Services and how they relate to microfinance and our borrowers. Chris has over 30 years of rural development experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. He joined Freedom from Hunger in 1984 as Director, Arizona Programs and is currently President of the organization. ...
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septembre 5, 2011 - 8:34pm
de Kiva.org
This month’s Passport Series focuses on Lebanon! Lebanon is a country with stunning mountain scenery, a beautiful Mediterranean climate, and a highly diverse population. Follow us throughout the month of September as we learn about Lebanon’s background, its microfinance sector, and Kiva’s presence within its borders. History Lebanon is a Middle Eastern nation that sits on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its bustling capital, Beirut, is ...
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juillet 28, 2011 - 6:00pm
de Kiva.org
At Kiva, we value being in tune with the current news, research, and findings, so each week we are going to bring you the latest updates in Microfinance! In this post, we cover the following: a new addition to the Client Protection Principles regarding non-discrimination, South Sudan's recent independence, financial inclusion in Nepal, exchanging ideas between Peru and Vietnam, the difficult path to financial independence for people with disabilities, and much much more!
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juillet 15, 2011 - 12:29pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
From CPI Financial
Grameen-Jameel, the first social business in the Middle East, and the Al-Karama microcredit to promote Moroccan microenterprises, signed a loan agreement of $500,000, payable over three years.
The signing took place in Casablanca in the presence of Julia Assaad, General Manager of Grameen-Jameel and Mr. Abdelmajid El Gasmi,President of Al-Karama microcredit. The loan agreement, the culmination of six years of technical and financial ...
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juillet 15, 2011 - 12:24pm
de Microfinance Africa
From CPI Financial
Grameen-Jameel, the first social business in the Middle East, and the Al-Karama microcredit to promote Moroccan microenterprises, signed a loan agreement of $500,000, payable over three years.
The signing took place in Casablanca in the presence of Julia Assaad, General Manager of Grameen-Jameel and Mr. Abdelmajid El Gasmi,President of Al-Karama microcredit. The loan agreement, the culmination of six years of technical and financial ...
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