Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Chile:
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May 25, 2012 - 5:36am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) El rol de una banca sostenible en la promoción de inclusión financiera en América Latina fue uno de los temas abordados en los paneles de la Conferencia Interamericana sobre Responsabilidad Social de la Empresa (CSRAméricas 2012), organizada por el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones(Fomin) del BID, concluida este miércoles en Quito.Algunos bancos de la región han desarrollado estrategias para brindar atención financiera a gran escala ...
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May 23, 2012 - 11:11pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) ¿Qué hace un microempresario cuando envejece y las energías ya no son las mismas para llevar y sostener un negocio?Esta pregunta fue planteada programáticamente por la Red Centroamericana y del Caribe de Microfinanzas (Redcamif) y los resultados de su exploración se presentaban este miércoles en Managua.Se trata de una ...
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May 22, 2012 - 2:58pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Red Microfinanzas ChilePresentan a IMFs conclusiones sobre inclusión financiera. La Red para el Desarrollo de las Microfinanzas de Chile fue el ámbito elegido para la presentación del estudio “En búsqueda de estrategias pertinentes de Inclusión Financiera para familias en condición de extrema pobreza”, encarado por el Fondo de Inversión ...
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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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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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May 1, 2012 - 9:36pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
A lot of progress has been made in understanding the savings behavior of poor households over the last few years. A raft of new studies are beginning to appear that promise to advance our understanding further.
But thus far, the new studies are providing as many new mysteries as answers. David Roodman does a good job of exploring the mysteries presented by one of the first ...
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May 1, 2012 - 1:06pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
In a New York Times column last Friday David Brooks discussed a book by Jim Manzi, and extolled the idea of randomized field trials as a way for the US to make better policies.
While it’s nice to welcome Citizen Brooks into the fold, there are a couple of points in his article worth exploring a bit.
First, he opens with some initial shock that no one has evaluated the ...
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April 26, 2012 - 4:05pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has partnered with Sri Lankan microinsurance company SANASA (Thrift, Credit and Cooperative Society in Sinhala) Insurance to “develop flexible, affordable, weather-based agricultural insurance products in Sri Lanka to minimize the impact of crop losses due to floods or droughts.” The project is expected to expand access to insurance for 15,000 small-scale farmers and raise awareness of the ...
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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 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 18, 2012 - 2:53am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Uno de los pioneros del modelo de microconsignación y fundador de la organización norteamericana Community Enterprise Solutions (CE Solutions) fue elegido este martes como uno de los “emprendedores sociales del año”, durante la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial que se está realizando en Puerto Vallarta, ...
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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 11, 2012 - 7:12am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The most rapidly obsolescing part of my book, Due Diligence, is chapter 6, which reviews the statistical evidence of the impact of microfinance on poverty. Since I put the text to bed, working papers have appeared that test microcredit in
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April 4, 2012 - 12:49am
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has invested USD 10 million in equity in Chilean insurance company Aseguradora Magallanes (AM) in an effort to expand the availability of insurance products, such as life and agribusiness insurance, to owners of under-served small businesses in Chile [1]. The investment is also expected to encourage other investors to enter Chile’s insurance market [1].
For the year 2010, AM reported ...
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April 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
from Microfinance Focus
International Finance Corporation (IFC) a member of World Bank has made its first insurance investment in Chile. $ 10 million is provided to Aseguradora Magallanes to help in expanding the availability of insurance to those underserved small businesses in the country.
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April 3, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Latin America has until very recently been marked out by high levels of poverty, inequality, exclusion, informality, social injustice and, not surprisingly, violence. Unfortunately, the neoliberal policies adopted in the region from about 1970 to 2000 played an important part in significantly exacerbating these historic economic and social ...
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March 21, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Girls are cool. Girls can save the world. Girls can – according to the colourful stickers produced by the Nike Foundation – pull off miracles: "lifting" economies, ending the spread of HIV, leading the revolution. Investing in girls, the UK's Department for International Development tells us, is a surefire way to "stop poverty before it ...
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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 1, 2012 - 9:16am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
There are two words guaranteed to get you escorted out of most development agencies, or sidelined in current development debates – they are: "dependency theory". Gone are the heydays of the 1970s when dependency theory was considered one of the most convincing critiques of dominant economic ...
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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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