Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Egypt:
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May 25, 2012 - 7:57pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Global Integrity broke 'open government' down into three core values: information transparency, public engagement, and accountability. Amina Az Zubair, CEO of Nigeria’s Centre for Development Policy Solutions, George Ndungu, National Coordinator for the Kenya Youth Network ...
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May 24, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
As the presidential election process gets under way in Egypt this week, an equally important debate has been going on in London about new ways to bring about the country's economic development.Together with Tunisia, Egypt has been chosen as a new area of operation for the multilateral European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
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May 9, 2012 - 3:11pm
from MicroCapital
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 2012, HSBC staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be deployed to provide technical assistance to ...
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May 8, 2012 - 2:14pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, is sponsoring a series of workshops for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt “on how to implement sound corporate governance standards to improve their performance, increase access to finance and foster sustained growth.” The program is intended to increase the development SMEs, which some consider a major component of the Egyptian economy. The workshops are partially supported ...
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May 6, 2012 - 6:14pm
from MicroCapital
Waseela Microfinance Bank Limited (WMBL), a microfinance institution (MFI) in Pakistan, reportedly has announced the opening of its first branch, which is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. As MicroCapital reported at the time, WMBL was authorized in April by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the central banking authority of ...
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May 1, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Having lived through revolutions in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, I should have known that revolutions are notoriously hard to predict. There is a messy chaos between the hope, euphoria and promise, and the stark reality of what comes after toppling a hated regime and before building a new future. What I saw on my week-long ...
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April 25, 2012 - 1:42pm
from MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Limited, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, reportedly has provided a loan of USD 1.5 million to the Jordan Micro Credit Company (Tamweelcom), a Jordan-based microfinance institution (MFI). The investment is expected to fund loans to approximately 4,000 micro-entrepreneurs inJordanover an unspecified timeframe. Grameen-Jameel made its first loan to Tamweelcom in 2008 in the amount of USD ...
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April 23, 2012 - 3:47pm
from MicroCapital
Waseela Microfinance Bank, a microfinance bank (MFB) in Pakistan, reportedly has been authorized by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the central banking authority of Pakistan, to commence operations and will begin providing financial services nationwide in the upcoming weeks. No specific timeframe was released. Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH), an Egypt-based telecommunications company and owner of Waseela Microfinance Bank, has provided the legally required amount of PKR 1 billion (USD 11 ...
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April 21, 2012 - 11:23am
from Microfinance Africa
From Tribune
KARACHI: A new microfinance bank – Waseela Microfinance Bank – will commence operations across the country soon as the State ...
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April 18, 2012 - 4:13pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Sudan burns – and the world yawns. Clashes along the north-south border multiply and spread, presaging all-out war – and the UN talks vaguely of new sanctions. Khartoum's parliament brands newly independent South Sudan
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April 3, 2012 - 8:41pm
from BRAC Blog
By Rod Dubitsky, Board Member, BRAC USA
In this highly partisan political season, where economic calamity is deemed inevitable if the wrong party is elected, “The Coming Prosperity” is a refreshing new entrant on the bookshelf. It is a book at odds with political rhetoric, but squares nicely with emerging global trends. The argument, in a ...
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March 24, 2012 - 10:56am
from Microfinance Nigeria
From MidEastPost.com
The Arab world today is home to millions of young people with hopes, plans and the desire to work. With more than 100 million young people between 15 and 29, representing 30 per cent of the total population, the region is facing an unprecedented “youth bulge”.
This reality has led to many challenges when it comes to youth ...
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March 24, 2012 - 10:54am
from Microfinance Africa
From MidEastPost.com
The Arab world today is home to millions of young people with hopes, plans and the desire to work. With more than 100 million young people between 15 and 29, ...
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March 22, 2012 - 1:59pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
There has been a girls' school at Irbid refugee camp in northern Jordan since 1952. No one could tell me how many girls attended the school at that time, but now it operates a shift system to cope with demand. About 850 girls attend the imaginatively-titled Irbid camp girls' school number 1 five days a week, meeting for classes between 7am and 11.30am. ...
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March 12, 2012 - 4:41pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Beth Rhyne
As part of an effort to Map the Invisible Market, I’ve been looking at data from the World Bank [1] on population and financial inclusion, seeking to answer this question: how many of the world’s people are financially excluded, and where are they? It’s not hard to rough out a basic picture.
To start, let’s focus on people of working age, because data on their use of ...
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March 8, 2012 - 11:41am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Women's rights have come a long way since the first International Women's Day in 1900. Early campaigners would be proud of the transformative role they played in securing votes for women, opening up access to male-only professions, and ...
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March 8, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
If there is one thing the divided and fragmented political forces in Egypt could agree upon when designing the law for the most recent elections, it was to remove the quota for women. Islamists, youth revolutionary coalitions and political ...
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February 23, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Somalia has been without effective central authority for more than 20 years. Often seen simply as a home to pirates, starving people and insurgents linked to al-Qaida, the country does not hold a lot of world records.According to reputable commentators and institutions, Somalia has the world's "
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February 10, 2012 - 5:00pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
By David Roodman -
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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