Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Benin:
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May 21, 2012 - 12:00am
from 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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May 14, 2012 - 7:31am
from Mambu Blog
Bonnes nouvelles, Mambu is now available in French! We’re happy to be able to expand our offering of microfinance software to the more than 200 million French speakers worldwide. This includes the estimated 115 million people across 31 francophone African countries including Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dijibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, ...
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May 4, 2012 - 3:47pm
from 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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April 27, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
The Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation (GCAMF), which was founded in Luxembourg by French bank Credit Agricole and Grameen Trust of Bangladesh, has reported to MicroCapital that it has issued a loan of USD 1.25 million with a three-year term and a one-year grace period to Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), a Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI). HKL was GCAMF’s first partner in Cambodia and GCAMF currently does business with two other MFIs in Cambodia. HKL’s gross loan ...
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April 27, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
“Designing Disclosure Regimes for Responsible Financial Inclusion,” by Jennifer Chien; published by CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor); March 2012; 23 pages; available at:
http://www.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.57109/FN_78.pdf
This publication discusses the importance of client comprehension of products as part of ...
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April 18, 2012 - 6:01pm
from Kiva.org
The upside of adversity: it brings people together.We see this in many of the countries where we do business, but it's particularly pronounced in Benin where the historic vacuum of opportunities has motivated men and women alike to pull together to create, support, educate and pool funds. This foundation of self-reliance and community offers a strong base for microfinance to invigorate ...
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April 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
from 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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April 10, 2012 - 5:08am
from MicroCapital
“Does Microcredit Increase Child Labour in Absence of Microinsurance?” by Sayan Chakrabarty; published by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, European Development Network and International Labour Office; February 2012; 35 pages; available at:
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April 2, 2012 - 4:45pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It's a truism in rich countries that money doesn't buy happiness - but many people still look for it in stores. And there is an assumption that happiness ...
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March 28, 2012 - 8:21pm
from Microfinance Africa
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March 28, 2012 - 4:09pm
from Kiva.org
This is the second of a three-part series taking a deep-dive look at Benin, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for the Béninois, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker.
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March 25, 2012 - 5:04am
from MicroCapital
Freedom from Hunger, a US-based non-governmental organization that aims to alleviate poverty, and Oikocredit, a Dutch cooperative investment fund, plan to partner with six microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru to implement Freedom from Hunger’s microfinance and health protection model. Freedom from Hunger and Oikocredit have worked with the MFIs to better understand client needs and develop health packages to improve both health knowledge and access ...
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March 22, 2012 - 3:22pm
from Kiva.org
This is the first of a three part series taking a closer look at Benin, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Beninese households, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker. We hope you enjoy.
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March 8, 2012 - 4:36pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Rosita Najmi, Financial Inclusion Practice, World Bank
“Congratulations,” the young man said, as I entered a favela in Rio. Puzzled, I raised my eyebrows and shrugged my shoulders. “He was congratulating you because you’re a woman.” said the young woman accompanying me on a UNDP assignment. My eyebrows migrated even further north. With a smile, she clarified, “Today is International Day of the Woman.” As we walked on, I turned and yelled over my shoulder ...
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March 7, 2012 - 10:07pm
from Kiva.org
This is the final post of a three part series taking a deep-dive look at El Salvador, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Salvadorans, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker. We hope you've enjoyed it ...
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March 6, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Every minute of every day, one woman dies somewhere in the world due to preventable complications in pregnancy or childbirth. That's a total of 1,000 women dying each day, or 365,000 dead each year, from pregnancy-related causes. Despite research that shows an
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February 29, 2012 - 6:45pm
from MicroCapital
Triple Jump Fund Management (Triple Jump), a Dutch investor in microfinance, recently issued its first loan to Finadev Benin SA, a microfinance institution (MFI) in Benin. The funds were disbursed from the Oxfam Novib Fund, which is managed by Triple Jump and holds assets of USD 56.4 million.
Finadev has 5,500 clients and a loan portfolio of USD 8.06 million as of 2011. In 2010, MFIs in Benin reporting to the US-based data provider Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) had ...
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February 27, 2012 - 5:08am
from MicroCapital
FirstBank of Nigeria PLC (FirstBank), a financial service provider in Nigeria, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Airtel Networks Limited (Airtel Nigeria), Globacom Limited Nigeria (GLO) and Etisalat Nigeria, three mobile phone service providers, to work together in an effort to provide secure, affordable and user-friendly mobile financial services in Nigeria. These services will allow the use of mobile phones for functions such as bank account inquiry, fund transfer, ...
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February 10, 2012 - 10:55am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In the markets of west Africa, malaria drugs are on sale as openly as oranges and bananas. Trader Simone Adechinan claims to know her stuff. "With these," she says, producing a beige box marked Chloroquine Phosphate, "you want to take six tablets a day for a week, then pause for a week and take paracetamol, ...
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January 28, 2012 - 3:27pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
On January 27, 2012 MFTransparency will unveil the microloan pricing data collected as part of the Transparent Pricing Initiatives in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. Concluding months of research and analysis, MFTransparency will present transparent prices for microloans offered in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania, information never before available.
Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania are the fourth, fifth and sixth countries in the
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