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May 21, 2012 - 12:35pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance products have so far been distributed in favour of the male population in the developing world, but Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford, said developing and promoting ...
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May 21, 2012 - 12:34pm
from Microfinance Africa
From Insurance in Nigeria
The rise and growth of microinsurance in developing parts of the world can play a central role in the empowerment of women, according to Mark Byrne, founder and chairman of investment vehicle Haverford.
Upwards of 80% of all microinsurance ...
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May 17, 2012 - 8:39pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Business Day Online
Nuhu Danjuma, a finance consultant, says Nigeria is the largest microfinance market in Africa, but that the sector has never benefited from cheap capital. Danjuma, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday, said that high interest rate charged on loans by the microfinance banks was because they did not have adequate operating capital.
His consulting firm works for the state-run Rural Finance Institution Building Programme ...
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May 17, 2012 - 8:39pm
from Microfinance Africa
From Business Day Online
Nuhu Danjuma, a finance consultant, says Nigeria is the largest microfinance market in Africa, but that the sector has never benefited from cheap capital. Danjuma, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday, said that high interest rate charged on loans by the microfinance banks ...
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May 17, 2012 - 12:47pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as micro-insurance.
The commission was particularly peeved by those companies that cannot boast of 10 offices in Nigeria but have offices in other countries such as Rwanda, Ghana, Gambia, Cameroon, Uganda ...
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May 16, 2012 - 12:47pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Favour Nnabugwu, Vanguard
National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has condemned the expansion drive of the country’s insurance companies in foreign countries over and above their spread in the country, at the expense of the nation’s untapped market such as ...
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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 10, 2012 - 2:51pm
from Acumen Fund Blog
Late last March I boarded a plane to Great Britain after attending a conference on the European debt crisis at the Banque de France. I was heading to the Skoll World Forum, hoping to replace the despair about the state of the world I had picked up in France with optimism for the future of a world transformed by social enterprises. I ...
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April 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/495
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 106
April 12, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 150 million
to the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated July 21, ...
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April 5, 2012 - 9:05am
from Mobile Money Africa
MOMODOU FAAL The Daily Observer Alfredo Gadea of the Spanish Cooperation Agency in The Gambia, has disclosed that the Spanish government has approved the Mobile Banking project for The Gambia Women’s Finance Association (GAWFA). This development, he said, has now given GAWFA the green light to be closely working with a private Spanish company called
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March 28, 2012 - 3:05pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Modestus Anaesoronye, Business Day Online
Insurance is undoubtedly one of the most ingenious creations of the human mind, which has survived for more than 200 years because it rests on very solid foundations and on sound fundamental principles. If any criticism has been leveled against insurance, it is certainly not because insurance has lost its usefulness in our societies rather it is probably because the practitioners (who are the sellers) have deviated from ...
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March 28, 2012 - 3:01pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Modestus Anaesoronye, Business Day Online
Insurance is undoubtedly one of the most ingenious creations of the human mind, which has survived for more than 200 years because it rests on very solid foundations and on sound fundamental principles. If any ...
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March 19, 2012 - 12:00am
from Central Bank of Nigeria Feed
The West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) is an institution established by the Governments of the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Its aim is to facilitate the creation of the West African Central Bank (WACB) and the introduction of a common currency for the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). In line with this mandate WAMI is looking to recruit an astute, dynamic and visionary individual to provide leadership and guidance for the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI).
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March 1, 2012 - 9:42pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national and international markets, while improving their own economic, social and political opportunities.
This thinking connects a series of case studies found in a new publication by the Food and ...
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March 1, 2012 - 9:37pm
from Microfinance Africa
From International Fund for Agricultural Development
Rome — Strong rural organizations like producer groups and cooperatives are crucial to hunger and poverty reduction. They allow small producers to play a greater role in meeting growing food demand on local, national ...
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September 26, 2011 - 3:30pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Rajiv Shah, the head of the US international development agency USAid, and the UK's international development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, were in New York last week to celebrate success.As part of their UN general assembly agenda, the pair co-hosted an event to showcase the
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September 15, 2011 - 10:38am
from MFW4A - Newsfeed
A conference on Islamic finance was held in Lomé on September 12th and 14th - a first in Togo.Organised by the African institute of Islamic finance (IAFI), its aim was to inform people of Islamic finance principles, Islamic case law, management of Islamic banks, contracts and financial products and Islamic bond financial markets, Le Griot newspaper reports.The conference shows the expansion of this type of finance in Africa, after the first Islamic ...
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August 30, 2011 - 11:52am
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Obinna Chima, This Day Live
Life just became easier. With your mobile phone, you may no longer have to go into the banking hall to deposit, withdraw or transfer money. Mobile phone subscribers can open mobile money account to store Electronic Value (EValue) of money easily on their mobile phones, using their mobile number as account number. They can also transfer money to any mobile number – and spend the money directly from their mobile money account to pay for ...
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August 25, 2011 - 12:29pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Betty Milton, awoko.org
The West African Institute for Financial and Economic and Economic Management (WAIFEM) yesterday commenced a 4-day regional course on micro-finance operations and regulation at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown.
Reading the keynote address on behalf of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, I. K. Lamin, Director Financial Market, said that micro-finance is the provision of a broad range of financial services to ...
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August 25, 2011 - 12:20pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Betty Milton, awoko.org
The West African Institute for Financial and Economic and Economic Management (WAIFEM) yesterday commenced a 4-day regional course on micro-finance operations and regulation at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown.
Reading the keynote address on behalf of the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, I. K. Lamin, Director Financial Market, said that micro-finance is the provision of a broad range of financial services ...
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