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May 23, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“Diamonds No Longer Forever;” by Scott Gaul; published by Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX); April 2012; available at: http://www.themix.org/publications/microbanking-bulletin/2012/04/diamonds-no-longer-forever
This publication announces a change in ...
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May 22, 2012 - 9:23pm
from CGAP Technology Blog
Helen Wernik Nascimento in based in Brazil and is a technical advisor for CGAP’s Technology Program. Her work focuses around the implementation of branchless banking, in particular how beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia, the country’s largest federal conditional cash transfer relate to financial products. She holds an MA in public policy from Victoria University of Wellington and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Universidade de Brasília.
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May 22, 2012 - 5:13pm
from Kiva.org
David Letterman once said, “If it weren’t for coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality at all.”I think we can all agree that the day would be a mighty struggle without a mug of our morning pick-me-up. Folgers or Starbucks -- it almost doesn’t matter as long as it has caffeine and lots of it. But the truth is -- it does matter. ...
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May 21, 2012 - 12:35pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance products have so far been distributed in favour of the male population in the developing world, but Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford, said developing and promoting ...
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May 21, 2012 - 12:34pm
from Microfinance Africa
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance ...
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May 17, 2012 - 12:47pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as micro-insurance.
The commission was particularly peeved by those companies that cannot boast of 10 offices in Nigeria but have offices in other countries such as Rwanda, Ghana, Gambia, Cameroon, Uganda ...
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May 16, 2012 - 12:47pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as ...
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May 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.Data in the World Bank's
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May 12, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries;” by Jacqueline Urquizo; published by Accion; March 2012; 45 pages; available at:
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May 9, 2012 - 1:46pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Co-authors and I are soon to complete (fingers crossed) some new work on climatic shocks and neo-natal mortality. But our findings are not the topic of this post. Rather I want to discuss the necessary behind-the-scenes data construction work that had to take place before the first regression could be estimated. The work involved the aggregation of fifty plus national level microdata sets (from Demographic and Health Surveys) and then a merger with geo-coded historical weather data (from ...
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May 7, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
All developing regions have enjoyed faster growth since 2002, with particular attention focused on the performance of larger countries. A string of acronyms, most notably Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), has animated the idea of a "great convergence" as incomes in the global south are
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May 4, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The future is urban. By 2030, 60% of the global population will live in towns and cities, particularly in Africa and Asia where the urban population is set to double in the next two decades. Cities are the centres of growth, dynamism and opportunity. But they are vulnerable to pollution and disasters, and their poorest people lack basic ...
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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 27, 2012 - 2:22pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank over Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain. It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development.The selection ...
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April 26, 2012 - 9:30am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is not original to remark that there is a modern-day scramble for Africa taking place. Economic growth averaging around 5% on the continent for the past decade is certainly good news compared with two decades of increasing poverty. But on the other side of the coin are the reasons for that growth: the large-scale export ...
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April 25, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
By the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico and Celina Lee, published by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, February 2012, 19 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.1.14613
This paper compares how four Latin American countries implement agent banking, 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 20, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
TIM Participacoes, the Brazilian subsidiary of Italian telecommunications company Telecom Italia Mobile, reportedly will launch a funeral microinsurance product for low-income individuals that can be enrolled in and paid for via mobile telephones. This service will be underwritten by an unnamed Brazilian insurance company. The insured will be able to accept the terms and conditions of the contract by text message and pay for the insurance premium directly by the phone bill or by prepaid ...
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April 19, 2012 - 11:05am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been travelling the world in recent weeks to tell industrialised nations to stop the "tsunami" of speculative capital flowing into her country. Low interest rates and slow growth in ...
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April 17, 2012 - 11:12am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The agenda for the upcoming Earth summit in Rio this June has a glaring hole: land rights.I have spent the last two years investigating the global epidemic of land grabs for a book. Saudi ...
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