Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Bolivia:
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May 24, 2012 - 2:40pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
Homogeneity is out; diversity is in. Moving clients to the center of the microfinance discourse is producing new data on who they are and how they use (or could use) financial services.
Financial inclusion means much more than simply having or not having a bank account: it goes beyond the mere availability of services to their adoption and usage. The recently published
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May 24, 2012 - 5:03am
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Lends $6.9m to Latin American Microfinance ...MicroCapitalSwitzerland's responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it ...
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May 24, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made investments equivalent to USD 6.9 million in Bolivian microfinance institution (MFI) Crecer and Colombian MFI Fundacion Mundo Mujer (FMM) Popayan. Crecer received USD 750,000 from the responsAbility SICAV Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF) and USD 2.5 million from the responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund (rAGMF). FMM Popayan received the equivalent of USD 3.6 million in local currency, USD ...
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May 18, 2012 - 3:16pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
“Los créditos que proporcionaron las entidades microfinancieras a un público principalmente compuesto de micro y pequeños empresarios y comerciantes, hasta diciembre de 2011...
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May 15, 2012 - 4:09am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Crédito: Diana Dultzin/Rimisp(Mundo Microfinanzas) El Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural(Rimisp) presentó su Informe Latinoamericano Pobreza y Desigualdad 2011, un estudio que aporta nueva información sobre enormes inequidades territoriales en la región, que afecta principalmente a poblaciones rurales, ...
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April 27, 2012 - 7:23pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) La iniciativa Smart Campaign, que promueve la protección al cliente de microfinanzas en el mundo, dio a conocer los nombres de las 10 IMFs y 4 asociaciones microfinancieras que merecieron su reconocimiento por sus herramientas de Código de Ética.De las casi treinta instituciones que ...
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April 26, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
La Asociación de Entidades Especializadas en Microfinanzas (Asofin) destacó que la tasa de crecimiento de la cartera agropecuaria entre 2006 y 2011 aumentó en un 13,7%...
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April 23, 2012 - 2:30pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
The Smart Campaign recently released the following press release to announce fourteen microfinance organizations with outstanding Codes of Ethics.
Washington, DC, April 18, 2012 — The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate ...
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April 9, 2012 - 10:09am
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Las instituciones de microfinanzas captaron una mayor cantidad de depósitos en bolivianos y canalizaron un mayor porcentaje de créditos en bolivianos...
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April 2, 2012 - 3:17pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
In their inaugural newsletter for Winter 2012, About Microfinance features a compelling interview with Elisabeth Rhyne. The interview highlights several topics, including the resiliency of microfinance institutions and some outlooks for the microfinance industry and for the Center for Financial Inclusion.
The interview begins:
About Microfinance: In your 2009 book, “Microfinance for Bankers and ...
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March 28, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Milford Bateman is perhaps best known for his strident attacks on microfinance as an anti-poverty strategy, including his sometimes acrimonious
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March 27, 2012 - 3:59pm
from Kiva.org
Poop kills.If you’re wondering whether I’ve lost my mind, I haven’t: it kills by the millions. On average, 1.8 million people die every year from diarrheal disease caused by poor sanitation and contaminated water supplies. Ninety percent of these deaths are children under five.The World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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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 23, 2012 - 2:47pm
from MicroCapital
The Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), a nonprofit network of 15 “values-based” banks, released a report it commissioned at its recent annual conference in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, suggesting that values-based banks (VBBs), banks that prioritize social progress, are financially stronger than mainstream banks. The report compares data from 17 VBBs, including microfinance banks BRAC Bank Limited of Bangladesh, BancoSol of Bolivia and Mibanco of Peru, with ...
MIX Recent Features
March 21, 2012 - 9:48pm
from MIX Recent Features
IntroductionBefore the 2009 financial crisis, it was believed that microfinance institutions (MFIs) were highly resilient to domestic macroeconomic shocks, in particular to contractions of gross domestic ...
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March 21, 2012 - 4:02pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Julie Shea
Large scale commercialization of microfinance institutions (MFIs) has led to an increased focus on profitability and with that a growing fear of “mission drift.” In an industry facing increased demands for both social and financial performance, how can investors in microfinance funds ensure that both of these “bottom lines” are appropriately ...
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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 17, 2012 - 12:42am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) entregó este viernes en Montevideo sus premios beyondBanking, que reconocen las contribuciones sobresalientes de intermediarios financieros a la banca sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe. Los ganadores recibieron sus premios en el Auditorio Nacional del SODRE, en el marco de la reunión anual del ...
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March 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The word “development” has many meanings—even within the “development community.” For Amartya Sen, the Nobel-winning economist and philosopher, development is freedom. Sen’s ...
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March 12, 2012 - 5:11am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Un estudio difundido en los últimos días muestra que los bancos basados en valores sostenibles, que hacen hincapié en un tipo de banca más humanizada y comprometida con el medioambiente, están superando en muchos aspectos a bancos considerados líderes de la industria financiera, incluyendo indicadores como retorno sobre activos, ...
