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May 15, 2012 - 3:57pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Cuatro mil jóvenes se capacitan en microfinanzas y economía social. Unos 4.000 jóvenes de todo el país participan hasta el 18 de mayo de los cursos sobre microfinanzas inclusivas y economía social y solidaria que brinda el Programa Impulso Argentino (Foncap).La iniciativa busca generar instancias de organización territorial para desarrollar y ...
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May 3, 2012 - 6:33pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Martín Naranjo Landerer, prestigioso economista y ex superintendente de Banca, Seguros y AFP de Perú, ha sido designado para ser el primer ejecutivo de Caja Nuestra Gente y Financiera Confianza, entidades de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA en Perú. Crédito: UPCon su nombramiento, ...
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April 30, 2012 - 2:01pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The future of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas has been in the news again recently, with the 30th anniversary of the conflict between Britain and Argentina and the increasingly bold rhetoric of Argentinian politicians. The discussion is treated in the press as a diplomatic and political issue, but little has been written about it from a ...
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April 22, 2012 - 10:16pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
No one said it’s easy to run a randomized experiment! Like Berk and Marcus have pointed out in previous posts, randomization can go wrong (see here), treatment assignment can get mixed up (see here), and turnover by management at the implementing institution can stop ...
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April 11, 2012 - 2:40pm
from Acumen Fund Blog
Seen & Heard Around Acumen Fund
March 17 – April 11, 2012
Seen & Heard is a collection of recent headlines in the news about our world, our work, and the spaces and places in between. In each post, we also share a list of job openings at Acumen Fund and in our sector. Seen & Heard appears twice a month on the blog. For those of you who like keeping ...
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April 9, 2012 - 10:31pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) El CEO de la plataforma MIX, Marten Leijon (foto), posteó el miércoles pasado en el blog del Centro para la Inclusión Financiera, de ACCIÓN, un interesante comentario sobre cómo la cooperación y la creatividad pueden ayudar a alcanzar análisis más finos sobre metas de inclusión financiera (Data with a Purpose: ...
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April 3, 2012 - 7:49pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Tigre ofrece una nueva posibilidad a las familias del distrito para que puedan acceder a una vivienda propia. Se trata de una línea de créditos sociales que se genera...
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March 23, 2012 - 12:57am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Cerca de 100 personas de diversas organizaciones de la sociedad civil participaron este jueves en Asunción de la tercera edición del NGO Connection Day donde se discutió sobre oportunidades de mejoras a partir del uso de tecnología y trabajo en red.El encuentro, que este año llevó como lema “Construyendo redes para avanzar”, es un ...
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March 21, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Fitch, a rating agency with headquarters in London and New York, reportedly has affirmed the rating of Peruvian nonprofit holding company Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo (Grupo ACP) at BB-, indicating an elevated vulnerability to default risk [1] [2]. It also improved the firm’s outlook from stable to positive due to “the company’s sustained performance, sound growth prospects for its core subsidiaries, and the expected stabilization of Grupo ACP ACP’s leverage underpinned by higher ...
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March 16, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Eyebrows hit the ceiling last month when it was found Chinese development banks lend more to Latin American governments than the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. A large proportion of Chinese finance in Latin ...
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March 13, 2012 - 8:12pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
El jueves pasado, en el marco del Día Internacional de la Mujer, unas 50 emprendedoras cerraron el segundo ciclo de educación financiera con una colorida feria de artesanías y otros interesantes productos en la plaza Infante Rivarola de Villa Morra, en Asunción.Se trata de emprendedoras de la zona Metropolitana, Villa Elisa, San Lorenzo, Luque, Capiatá, Limpio, ...
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March 13, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
In its first year of commercial operation, which ended September 2011, Corporacion para las Microfinanzas Puerto Rico (PR), a microfinance institution created and owned by the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, granted USD 2.1 million to entrepreneurs on the island of Puerto Rico [1]. BBVA Microfinance Foundation supports eight microfinance institutions in the Americas and has assets of USD 941 million as of December 2011 [2]. BBVA Microfinance Foundation is an arm of the BBVA Group, a ...
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March 12, 2012 - 4:41pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Beth Rhyne
As part of an effort to Map the Invisible Market, I’ve been looking at data from the World Bank [1] on population and financial inclusion, seeking to answer this question: how many of the world’s people are financially excluded, and where are they? It’s not hard to rough out a basic picture.
To start, let’s focus on people of working age, because data on their use of ...
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March 7, 2012 - 3:16am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“ARGENTINA: Microcredit Schemes Run by Indigenous Women Reactivate Economy”
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February 28, 2012 - 10:34pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Microfinanzas Puerto Rico, entidad de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, otorgó 2.1 millones de dólares en créditos a empresarios desfavorecidos de la isla para financiar el desarrollo de actividades productivas existentes, desde que en septiembre de 2010 iniciara su actividad comercial (datos a cierre 2011).La entidad está especializada en Finanzas Productivas, esto es ...
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February 24, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This week, while Eurozone finance ministers were agreeing their latest plan to not deal with the European debt crisis, they should have been listening to stories from across the Atlantic. The Institute for the Study of the ...
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February 22, 2012 - 9:16pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The term "failed state" was coined by President George W Bush to be the byword of US policy in Somalia. The country was put on the list of those associated with terrorism and, thereafter, any country that risked relations with Somalia was subject to American sanctions.As a result, the internationalcommunity was dissuaded from having ...
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from 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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January 31, 2012 - 6:37pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Yesterday, Milford Bateman and I debated. Chuck Waterfield moderated. I’m told the video will be posted later this week. The organizers designated note-takers, and I think their work will be posted too. I’ll let you know.
It was an intense experience. I think Milford and Chuck and I gave the audience a ...
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January 31, 2012 - 12:44pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Pro Mujer en Argentina (PMA) es una de las seis organizaciones que se beneficiara del compromiso hecho por Walmart de proveer más de $2.5 millones para empoderar...
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