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May 21, 2013 - 12:19pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The African Union (AU) is now 50 years old. Amid the celebrations this week, the AU – which was established as the Organisation of African Unity (OAU)
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May 13, 2013 - 12:30pm
from MicroCapital
Triodos Bank, a for-profit financial institution based in the Netherlands, has launched two new investment funds, the Sustainable Pioneer Fund and the Sustainable Equity Fund. The Sustainable Pioneer Fund is an equity fund that focuses on investing in small and medium- sized firms that address issues relating to sustainable energy, medical technology, environmental technology and clean water. The Sustainable Equity Fund is an equity fund that invests in larger-scale firms that meet ...
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May 10, 2013 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The Angolan government says it is waging "a sustained war against chaotic urbanisation", but this appears to have become a war against poor people.The most extreme examples are in Luanda, a city bursting at the seams. Around half a million people lived in Angola's capital in 1975, when the Portuguese moved out. Now, with many forced ...
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May 1, 2013 - 1:52pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
In this post, we respond to Deborah Brautigam’s review of our Chinese development finance data collection project. Our initiative is premised on the idea that we should open our data and methods to criticism in order to improve them. To this end, we provided all users with a methodology that describes all our procedures and methods. In ...
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April 16, 2013 - 3:46pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Dan Norell, Senior Technical Advisor, World Vision
Financial services and enterprise development practitioners often exist in their own separate silos—yet very poor producers need both increased access to markets and financial services in order to increase resilience and economic well-being. Financial inclusion advocates are missing the boat if they ...
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February 7, 2013 - 9:00am
from RemittancesGateway
The remittances by Portuguese workers based in Angola gave a significant strength to the Portuguese economy in 2012, Angop learned Wednesday in Luanda.
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February 7, 2013 - 9:00am
from RemittancesGateway
The remittances by Portuguese workers based in Angola gave a significant strength to the Portuguese economy in 2012, Angop learned Wednesday in Luanda.
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February 1, 2013 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
The government of Belarus reportedly has issued a draft decree that would regulate microfinance institutions (MFIs). The decree would set the minimum capital requirement for MFIs at USD 136,000 and the maximum size of microloans at USD 18,000. The decree also provides for the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB), the central banking authority of the country, to maintain a register of legal microfinance lenders in an effort to prevent fraud such as pyramid investment schemes. ...
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December 13, 2012 - 6:12pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Life expectancy in most countries has increased by around 10 years over the past four decades – but huge discrepancies remain between the richest and poorest nations, according to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.The study, published in the Lancet, has taken ...
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December 3, 2012 - 9:10pm
from MicroCapital
Triodos Investment Management, a subsidiary of Dutch Triodos Bank, recently disbursed loans to the following five microfinance institutions: Caja Rural de Ahorra y Credito Quillabamba (Credinka) of Peru, Ugafode Microfinance Limited of Uganda, Fundación de Apoyo Comunitario y Social del Ecuador (FACES) of Ecuador, Agora Microfinance Zambia and Asociación de Desarrollo Integral Rural (ASDIR) of Guatemala. These loans were funded by the following microfinance investment vehicles: the ...
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November 20, 2012 - 11:28am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is often an article of faith in development circles that community participation is a prerequisite for successful projects.But a World Bank report last week underlines the difficulties in "inducing" civic involvement and says such projects often fail to be sensitive to social, political and historical contexts.
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November 5, 2012 - 8:59pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This has been a great year for women in power in Africa with the election of a second female president, the appointment of the first female head of the African Union and not one, but two female Nobel prizewinners.In April we saw the election of Joyce Banda as president of Malawi; in June, ...
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October 17, 2012 - 7:50am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Pascal Canfin, the French development minister, is more interested in policies with the potential to help or hurt poor countries than in meeting aid targets.It is an approach that contrasts with the UK where ...
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September 11, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The International Business Bank (BNI in Portuguese), an Angolan bank, reportedly has launched the Sociedade de Micro-credito, a microcredit society, in Angola’s capital city, Luanda. The society, also called FacilCred, has released four microloan products: FacilSolidario, FacilEmpreendedor, FacilEstudante and FacilSupermercado. FacilSolidario is designed to fund groups of six to ten people working in commercial activity and offers loans starting at AOA 10,000 (USD 105) with periods ...
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September 3, 2012 - 6:04pm
from MicroCapital
Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Sergei Dubkov recently announced the design of a government program to enhance financial literacy for individuals and small businesses. The draft will first be revised by the National Bank after which it will be sent to government agencies in September for approval. Reportedly, an extended session of the Board of the National Bank will approve the program in October.
This program was developed by the committee affiliated ...
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August 29, 2012 - 11:12am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The scenes from a parched field near Rustenburg of well-armed police officers opening fire on miners waving spears and clubs has cast South Africa in a new light – that of a land of lowly citizens, kept in check by a distant elite of government ...
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August 21, 2012 - 12:59am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“Financial inclusion: India scores poorly on global stage”
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August 7, 2012 - 3:44pm
from MicroCapital
According to a statement attributed to the CEO of Sol Bank, Coutinho Nobre Miguel, the Angolan bank has released USD 148 million in microcredit since the start of this year. Dr. Miguel stated that the bank intends to release USD 1 million monthly for loans to micro-, small and medium-sized businesses.
Sol Bank reported total assets of USD 1.3 billion, outstanding loans of USD 332 million, return on assets (ROA) of 2.1 percent, return on equity (ROE) of 30.4 percent, total deposits ...
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July 27, 2012 - 2:17am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/portal/capa/index.html
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/portal/capa/index.html
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July 17, 2012 - 11:45am
from Microfinance Africa
According to a report attributed to the Namibia ...
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