Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Chad:
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April 14, 2013 - 4:21pm
from MicroCapital
Luxembourg-based telecommunication firm Millicom International Cellular, also known as Tigo, has launched A mobile banking operations in Chad. The service, known as Tigo Cash, operates in partnership with Orabank, a Lomé based commercial bank. Airtel of India released its mobile banking product, Airtel Money, in July 2012 in partnership with Ecobank, a Togo-based commercial bank with operations in 29 African countries. Both Airtel Money and Tigo Cash allow users to conduct money ...
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April 11, 2013 - 11:01pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
A global plan to save the lives of the 2 million children who die from pneumonia and diarrhoea every year – the most common causes of death in children – is launched on Friday and deserving of much applause. It is not just about vaccines and it is not just about clean water, but about pushing forward on ...
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April 8, 2013 - 6:15am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“FNB takes mobile money to Zim”
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April 3, 2013 - 1:20am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“Mobile banking is taking off in Chad”
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April 3, 2013 - 12:58am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“Mobile banking is taking off in Chad”
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March 18, 2013 - 6:30am
from AidData: The First Tranche
Open Data Changing the World This week the Harvard Business Review argued that “we need open data to change the world,” encouraging organizations to adopt a default position “to share all the data you can.” This principle is reflected in the
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February 19, 2013 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Mali, long on the international backburner, is now having its moment in prime-time. Media from around the world have breathlessly covered the lightning offensive by French and Malian military forces and
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January 31, 2013 - 2:12pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Co-authored with Richard Akresh and Harounan Kazianga
Social safety nets are actively promoted in developing countries both as responses to financial crises and as mechanisms to alleviate poverty. Conditional cash transfers, which are now common in Latin America but remain rare in other regions, are also seen a way to reduce future poverty by investing in the human capital of the next generation (Fiszbein and Schady, 2009). While both ...
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January 28, 2013 - 1:24pm
from Microfinance Africa
“Youth’s Financial Inclusion Policy Reform Study; Case Study of Youth in Post and Ongoing Conflict; Blue Nile, North and South Kordofan Areas” this serious and important study was written by Yassir Ahmed Hassan Jamie and published by the UNDP but is a result of a ...
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January 28, 2013 - 1:23pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
“Youth’s Financial Inclusion Policy Reform Study; Case Study of Youth in Post and Ongoing Conflict; Blue Nile, North and South Kordofan Areas” this serious and important study was written by Yassir Ahmed Hassan Jamie and published by the UNDP but is a result of a cooperation between the UNDP, the MDG Achievement Fund and the MFU-CBOS( Bank of Sudan Microfinance Unit).
Microfinance in Ongoing and Post Conflict Areas:
Usually experts’ opinions state that ...
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December 26, 2012 - 11:51am
from IFMR Blog
By Vishnu Prasad, IFMR Finance Foundation
As the government plans to transfer 29 benefits (pensions, scholarships, fuel subsidies etc.) through the direct cash transfer scheme, we look at what research tells us about unconditional cash transfers.
1. Unconditional cash transfers could ...
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December 17, 2012 - 2:00pm
from Microfinance Africa
The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has approved seven loans and three grants totaling over US$100 million to boost socio-economic development in 13 African ...
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December 15, 2012 - 2:03pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) has approved seven loans and three grants totaling over US$100 million to boost socio-economic development in 13 African countries
VIENNA, Austria, December 14, 2012/ – The Governing Board of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) (http://www.ofid.org), meeting in its ...
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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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November 29, 2012 - 6:54am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Quito al anochecer (foto: Miguel Yepez)(Mundo Microfinanzas, en Quito) De a ratos llueve, de a ratos refresca, de a ratos sale el sol. “Así es el clima en Quito. Aquí puede llover y en la otra calle hay sol”, me dice Eduardo, el chofer que me lleva desde el hotel hasta el Banco Central del Ecuador (
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November 5, 2012 - 7:30am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Panel Microfinanzas en China en el Foromic 2012, en Barbados (foto: Fomin)(Mundo Microfinanzas) Las microfinanzas volvieron esta semana a tender un puente entre América Latina y China. Un mes después del panel Microfinanzas en China, en el marco del Foromic ...
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October 4, 2012 - 10:13am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Entrar en la comunidad de Semochán implica un lento viaje por una carretera llena de baches. Por la ventana, líneas perfectas de ...
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September 3, 2012 - 11:00am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Dentro de los tipos de riesgos externos con que se enfrenta una IMF se cuentan los denominados “reputacionales”, esto es, aquéllos riesgos que se producen a partir de un deterioro de la imagen o credibilidad de la institución y que pueden afectar sus resultados comerciales.Si cualquier tipo de riesgo externo es (por definición) originado a partir de factores endógenos a la entidad, y por esta razón su gestión resulta más compleja y elusiva, los ...
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August 21, 2012 - 7:53pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Cuentapropismo, familia y empleo no estatal. El trabajo por cuenta propia familiar enfrenta los mismos obstáculos que los que no tienen la participación de la familia, si bien sus conflictos pueden ser más agudos debido a la desconfianza, problemas personales entre los miembros y rivalidades entre generaciones. Esta es una de las conclusiones de la investigación realizada por el economista Ricardo Jorge Machado y la Lic. Karla Gattorno, de la Escuela de Altos Estudios de ...
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August 14, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
"When I heard about giving birth in a hospital on Radio Sila, it was the first time anyone suggested that to me," says 37-year-old Achta Abakar Ibrahim, a Darfur refugee and mother of 10. She sits in the shade of her compound in Djabal camp, near Goz Beïda, eastern Chad, plaiting the hair of her four-year-old daughter, Malia."My first ...
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