Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Senegal:
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mai 21, 2012 - 12:00am
de Symbiotics Group Press Releases
Regmifa successfully attains the USD 50 million mark
reaching more than 112,000 borrowers, 91% of which micro-, small
and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
The Regional MSME Investment Fund for
Sub-Saharan Africa S.A., SICAV-SIF (REGMIFA) celebrates its second
anniversary with good performance results in 2011 and promising
prospects for 2012. Development Finance Institution (DFI) investors
have created a successful track record for crowding ...
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mai 10, 2012 - 10:21pm
de Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
This post was co-authored with Espen Beer Prydz. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this post are entirely ours. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations.
The Lancet recently published a paper by Pronyk et al. [
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mai 4, 2012 - 3:47pm
de MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has partnered with the eight countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA in French) to increase access to finance for the region’s small-scale businesses. IFC is developing private credit bureaus and sharing information with UEMOA in an effort to improve awareness of credit in the region, lower operations costs and improve risk mitigation. No timeframe for the project was ...
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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 26, 2012 - 4:24pm
de GiveWell Blog
Two interventions that command a lot of attention are microfinance (financial services, particularly small loans, for the very poor) and improved cookstoves (with the hope of reducing air pollution). We’ve recently seen a couple of helpful summaries of relevant research:
David Roodman summarizes the most rigorous research on microfinance. There are now five randomized ...
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avril 21, 2012 - 12:54pm
de Microfinance Nigeria
From IPP Media
ISLAMIC finance has been growing rapidly in developing and developed countries in recent years. Its financial assets have expanded by over 10 per cent annually and represented over 0.5 per cent of the global financial assets in 2010.
The strong growth is likely to continue in the coming years despite the recent financial crisis. The National Bank of Commerce (NBC) ...
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avril 21, 2012 - 12:48pm
de Microfinance Africa
From IPP Media
ISLAMIC finance has been growing rapidly in developing and developed countries in recent years. Its financial assets have expanded by over 10 per cent annually and ...
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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 ...
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avril 18, 2012 - 4:05pm
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
When the global financial crisis struck in 2008, the World Bank's social development unit and the Institute of Development Studies in the UK set out to examine in "real time" how around 3,000 people in 17 developing countries coped with the shock of higher food and fuel prices.The joint project has resulted ...
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avril 16, 2012 - 10:58am
de Mobile Money for the Unbanked
First launched in Côte d’Ivoire in December 2008, Orange Money is also available in Senegal, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Kenya, as well as in Botswana and Cameroon. It will soon be launched in Mauritius. Today, we publish the second and final part of our interview with Frederic Blehaut, Group Business Manager at Orange Money in which ...
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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 9, 2012 - 1:51pm
de CGAP Microfinance Blog
A micro-borrower in the Philippines struggles to figure out which one of several loans is the least expensive—one comes with a flat charge, another a weekly interest rate, and still another a monthly rate with an upfront deduction. In Senegal, a recent survey of low-income consumers revealed that more than 99% of respondents were unaware of their right to standardized price information on the loan and deposit services they used. In Mexico, poorer consumers looking for a cheaper way to ...
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avril 5, 2012 - 5:04am
de MicroCapital
“Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Markets: How Banks Can Grasp a $350 Billion Opportunity,” by Mutsa Chironga, et al; published by McKinsey & Company; 2012; 58 pages; available at:
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avril 3, 2012 - 10:44am
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The fishermen of Joal say that if the foreign trawlers are not stopped, Senegal could end up like Somalia, with gun-toting pirates attacking shipping. But is there any evidence that over-fishing by Europeans or Chinese actually led to the fishermen of Somalia turning to piracy?
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mars 28, 2012 - 1:02pm
de MicroLinks News and Announcements
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mars 5, 2012 - 7:13am
de MicroCapital
Event Name: Inclusive Financial Innovation: Making Finance and Insurance Markets Work for the Poor
Event Date: May 21 to May 22, 2012
Event Location: Hotel Pullman Dakar Teranga, Dakar, Senegal
See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar Here: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events
Cost: Registration fees for the conference are: ...
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février 28, 2012 - 3:04pm
de Acumen Fund Blog
Editor’s note: This post and tomorrow’s post, also posted on the Villgro Fellows Blog, is the result of a collaboration–we asked one Villgro Fellow and one Acumen ...
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février 23, 2012 - 5:05am
de MicroCapital
BNP Paribas China, a branch of the France-based financial services provider BNP Paribas, has disbursed a loan in local currency equivalent to USD 2.3 million to Chinese microfinance institution (MFI) MicroCred Nanchong, a member of the France-based MicroCred. MicroCred Nanchong distributes loans starting at EUR 228 (USD 300) to approximately 7,000 borrowers in China.
MicroCred Nanchong reported a gross loan portfolio of USD 20.5 million, total assets of USD 21.4 million, return on ...
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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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février 8, 2012 - 7:00am
de Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
We all know that China has firmly arrived in Africa, but do we know what that means in practice, or how things are changing? Much has been said about this phenomenon, but often based on little research and/or tainted with a hardly disguised nationalistic slant in which China is seen as a competitor or ...
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