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May 23, 2012 - 12:54pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Researchers have long recognized the importance of choosing interviewer characteristics while designing their fieldwork – for example female interviewers are often utilized to explore topics related to domestic violence and respondents of both sexes are more likely to disclose sexual abuse to female interviewers than to male ones. Another key consideration is the degree of familiarity between interviewer ...
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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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April 30, 2012 - 9:04am
from Microfinance Focus
Accion released a report providing the financial industry with important recommendations for creating and improving services to rural residents in Latin America. This study – based on market research conducted in Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Peru – provides a detailed portrait of access, use and attitudes towards financial services by rural residents, both farmers and micro entrepreneurs.
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April 27, 2012 - 12:15pm
from Microfinance Africa
BOSTON, April 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Accion, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, today released a report providing the financial industry with important recommendations for creating and improving services to rural residents in Latin ...
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April 26, 2012 - 4:21pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
This morning, Accion released a report, “The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries.” The report, by Jacqueline Urquizo, provides the financial industry with new information relevant for improving financial services to rural residents in Latin ...
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April 2, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is truly historic to be engaged in a global debate about who should head the World Bank. For more than 60 years the Bank presidency has been dictated by the US. Finally, the US and the Bank have pledged the institution's next president will be chosen on merit, not hegemony.On merit, José Antonio Ocampo is far and ...
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March 13, 2012 - 2:30pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Once again, just as the reconstruction process was beginning to gather pace and demonstrable progress was being made, Haiti finds itself plunged into a constitutional crisis that threatens to set back progress for months.The prime minister, Garry ...
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March 6, 2012 - 10:09am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
It seems as if everyone is talking about financial capability these days. Well, maybe they’re not talking about financial capability but rather financial education or financial literacy or… you get the point.
Regardless of the name (and by the way, we prefer financial capability), many of us looking to achieve full financial inclusion at the base of ...
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February 26, 2012 - 3:46am
from myKRO
Here’s a video highlighting those entrepreneurs and children Esperanza International works with in the Dominican Republic.
Click here to view the embedded video.
I’ve spent a bit of time in the DR visiting Kayla (who works for Esperanza), and this slideshow certainly
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February 24, 2012 - 1:11am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Typical policies to improve the incomes of poor households and their businesses are based on the sustained provision of services – be it microfinance with multiple loan cycles and regular meetings; conditional cash transfers with regular transfers over a period of years; or business training programs which are based on the idea that capital along is not enough – as in the proverb “give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life”.
In a ...
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February 14, 2012 - 3:03am
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, February 14, 2012: To improve the efficiency and competition in the remittances market in Latin America and ensure that such transfers are low-cost, the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), the Centre for Monetary Fund (IMF), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and World Bank have recently launched enviacentroamerica.org , a free online tool that will allow users to compare and make transparent the costs of sending remittances from the ...
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February 14, 2012 - 2:14am
from MicroCapital
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA in Spanish), a Mexico-based association of Latin American central banks; the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the US-based Inter-American Development Bank; and the World Bank recently launched Envía Centro America, a free online tool that allows users to compare the cost and speed of sending remittances from the United States to seven Latin American countries, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, ...
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February 3, 2012 - 3:04pm
from RemittancesGateway
CEMLA, MIF/IDB and World Bank Launch enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA, for its initials in Spanish), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank ...
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February 3, 2012 - 3:04pm
from RemittancesGateway
CEMLA, MIF/IDB and World Bank Launch enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA, for its initials in Spanish), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank ...
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January 17, 2012 - 10:04pm
from MicroCapital
Absolute Portfolio Management GmbH, an Austrian investment company that specializes in microfinance, reports that the Dual Return Fund-Vision Microfinance, a sub-fund of Absolute’s Vision Microfinance, had a total fund volume of EUR 85.8 million (USD 109 million) with loans issued to 65 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 25 emerging markets as of December 2011. In 2011, the fund provided investors with net returns of 2.51 percent for its retail EUR (P) Share Class and 3.23 percent for ...
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January 6, 2012 - 11:39am
from MicroCapital
Omtrix, a Costa Rica-based fund manager and financial consulting firm, has announced the launch of the Higher Education Finance Fund (HEFF), a student loan financing fund to promote and finance higher education opportunities for low-income youth in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay and Peru. HEFF will provide loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) for on-lending to underprivileged youth seeking funding for higher education. Omtrix, which was responsible for ...
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December 24, 2011 - 2:52am
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, December 24, 2011: Omtrix, a Costa Rica based fund manager and financial consultancy firm has launched a $ 35 million High Education Finance Fund (HEFF) that will promote and finance higher education careers to underserved low income youth.
The fund will provide loans to a network of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay and Peru which in turn will provide student loans to underprivileged ...
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December 15, 2011 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
For people in the UK, a weak deal at Durban on climate change may be disappointing, but it is not something that will affect their everyday life – at least not for some years to come.In Haiti, though, hurricanes are ...
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December 12, 2011 - 9:09am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
We want to increase (girls) education… but what’s the best way to do this?
A lot of education policy has been based on the philosophy immortalized in the classic movie Field of Dreams: "Build it and they will come.” That is, researchers and policymakers have examines the effects of programs that lower the direct or indirect costs of schooling, for instance, through building schools (
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December 6, 2011 - 6:59am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The resignation of Peru's deputy environment minister amid violent protests against the country's largest ever mining project has highlighted how weak institutions, unable to ensure decisions are made on the basis of robust information, undermine green policymaking in Latin America.José de Echave quit in late November, ...
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