Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in El Salvador:
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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 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 15, 2012 - 1:22am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
BCIE y el PNUD anudan acuerdos. El Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (BCIE) y el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) firmaron este viernes en Nueva York una alianza para profundizar el impacto del desarrollo económico sostenible, la integración y la erradicación de la pobreza en la región.El convenio, firmado por el ...
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April 19, 2012 - 10:03pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
WSBI works with savings banks in the developing world to increase the number of savings accounts for the poor. The ten participating banks are KPOSB Kenya, LPB Lesotho, PBU Uganda, SAPB South ...
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April 19, 2012 - 3:42am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) La Red Centroamericana y del Caribe de Microfinanzas (Redcamif) y la Red Panameña de Microfinanzas (Redpamif) invitan a la VI Conferencia Centroamericana y del Caribe “Microfinanzas: Creciendo con Inclusión”.El evento tendrá lugar del 5 al 7 de septiembre de 2012 en el Hotel Riu Plaza Panamá.
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March 29, 2012 - 12:18pm
from Microfinance Focus
Regulation and supervision have become “hot” topics in the microfinance field. Many
countries around the world—from El Salvador to Zambia—are beginning to think about
whether and how to regulate microfinance.
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March 21, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Fitch, a rating agency with headquarters in London and New York, reportedly has affirmed the rating of Peruvian nonprofit holding company Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo (Grupo ACP) at BB-, indicating an elevated vulnerability to default risk [1] [2]. It also improved the firm’s outlook from stable to positive due to “the company’s sustained performance, sound growth prospects for its core subsidiaries, and the expected stabilization of Grupo ACP ACP’s leverage underpinned by higher ...
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March 20, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
For a country where more than half the population lives in poverty, new legislation leading to the removal of an income tax concession may not seem a ground-breaking act. But in Guatemala – officially classed as a lower middle-income country although malnutrition remains endemic – the
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March 12, 2012 - 5:11am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Un estudio difundido en los últimos días muestra que los bancos basados en valores sostenibles, que hacen hincapié en un tipo de banca más humanizada y comprometida con el medioambiente, están superando en muchos aspectos a bancos considerados líderes de la industria financiera, incluyendo indicadores como retorno sobre activos, ...
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March 7, 2012 - 10:07pm
from Kiva.org
This is the final post of a three part series taking a deep-dive look at El Salvador, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Salvadorans, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker. We hope you've enjoyed it ...
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February 29, 2012 - 4:49pm
from Kiva.org
This is the second of a three part series taking a deep-dive look at El Salvador, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Salvadorans, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker.
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February 27, 2012 - 5:54pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Susy Cheston, Senior Advisor for the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International
This post is part of the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Expert Exchange: Building A Movement Toward Financial Inclusion by ...
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February 27, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Three months after the fourth high level forum on aid effectiveness, held in Busan, much uncertainty still surrounds what the vaunted new Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation might look like. It ...
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February 24, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This week, while Eurozone finance ministers were agreeing their latest plan to not deal with the European debt crisis, they should have been listening to stories from across the Atlantic. The Institute for the Study of 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 30, 2012 - 6:26pm
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, January 30, 2012: Dr. John Hatch is the founder of FINCA and the creator of Village Banking—a unique and influential method for delivering small loans, savings, and other financial services to the poor worldwide. Over 22 years with FINCA, Hatch served as president, and as chief of party for programs in El Salvador and Guatemala. He retired as FINCA’s director of research in 2006.
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January 19, 2012 - 12:46am
from Kiva.org
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to look back and reflect on all that we have been able to accomplish together in the year that’s passed. It has been an extremely busy year of learning and growth, a year of many exciting firsts, meaningful milestones and inspiring numbers! Here are just some of the great things that we hope everyone will remember, and celebrate, about 2011...Exciting Firsts...We introduced
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December 13, 2011 - 6:13am
from MicroCapital
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a US-based multilateral finance institution, has approved a USD 50 million loan to expand access to microcredit in Ecuador, particularly among low-income women. The loan will be extended to the National Program for Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Solidarity (PNFPEES), a government agency that provides loans to organizations in high-poverty areas that have limited access to credit.
IDB Specialist Rosa Matilde Guerrero said, “We ...
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