Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Guatemala:
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May 25, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The World Council of Credit Unions’ Young Credit Union People (WYCUP) Scholarship Program recently announced the agenda for its four-day program to take place in Gdansk, Poland, from July 15, 2012 – July 18, 2012. The program focuses on developing professional growth of credit union employees and volunteers aged 35 and under. Five participants are chosen each year to receive full scholarships to the following year’s program. This year’s agenda will include: an educational and networking ...
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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 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 14, 2012 - 1:34am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
I spent Friday and Saturday at the BREAD development conference at Yale (program here). It differs from most conferences - which feature many papers each presented for a short amount of time- by instead having only 7 papers each presented for 1 hour 15 minutes with plenty of spirited discussion. The conference featured some interesting papers, including
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May 10, 2012 - 12:50pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
El jefe de la Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala, Víctor Mancilla, anticipó hoy que esa institución y otras entidades del Ejecutivo prepara el Proyecto de Ley de Microfinanzas...
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May 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Why aren't all early childhood interventions most effective at the same age? Should we be checking that our randomizations are balanced according to genes that influence behavior? Should we be gathering biological outcomes, in addition to economic ones, even when the intervention does not involve biology?Early childhood interventions - usually working through either health or education – can have very long-lasting effects, some of which are even transmitted to the next ...
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May 2, 2012 - 3:58pm
from RemittancesGateway
Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn
In TAPACHULA, a furnace of a city in southern Mexico, people line up inside an air-conditioned branch of Banco Azteca to process their remittances. Last year Mexicans received an estimated $24 billion from friends and family working abroad, mainly in the United States, with which Mexico ...
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May 2, 2012 - 3:58pm
from RemittancesGateway
Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn
In TAPACHULA, a furnace of a city in southern Mexico, people line up inside an air-conditioned branch of Banco Azteca to process their remittances. Last year Mexicans received an estimated $24 billion from friends and family working abroad, mainly in the United States, with which Mexico ...
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April 25, 2012 - 12:58pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
What percentage of women in South Asia have a formal account compared to those in Latin America? What are the most common self-reported barriers to financial inclusion among women and rural residents worldwide? To what degree has mobile money reached the unbanked in Sub-Saharan Africa?
For the first time, we have hard data to ...
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April 25, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
By the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico and Celina Lee, published by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, February 2012, 19 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.1.14613
This paper compares how four Latin American countries implement agent banking, a ...
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April 24, 2012 - 4:01pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
If you were an expectant mother, how would you stay strong in the face of a lack of resources and access to proper care? That was the questions on my mind last Monday, April 16, when I attended a screening of Christy Turlington Burns’s documentary “No Woman, No Cry,” ...
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April 23, 2012 - 5:08am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) El Consejo Mundial de Cooperativas de Ahorro y Crédito (WOCCU, por su sigla en inglés) acaba de lanzar una guía técnica en la que repasa la experiencia cooperativa en el uso de tecnología móvil para ampliar la inclusión financiera.La guía, editada en inglés, recoge varias experiencias exitosas en América Latina y otras partes del mundo que han permitido llegar con productos y servicios a poblaciones rurales remotas o sectores económicamente ...
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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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April 18, 2012 - 4:31pm
from MicroCapital
MicroPlanet Technologies, a US-based nonprofit that offers technology services to microfinance institutions (MFIs), recently named Daryl Skoog as executive director. Prior to accepting this position, Mr Skoog served 12 years as head of the technology department at Opportunity International, a US-based nonprofit organization that focuses on microfinance. During his time with Opportunity International, Mr Skoog oversaw the employment of core banking systems at 23 MFIs and banks and helped ...
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April 18, 2012 - 12:42pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Microplanet Press Release
MicroPlanet brings together a world-class team of technology professionals to support microfinance sector
WASHINGTON and DENVER – April 16, 2012 – MicroPlanet Technologies, a leading provider of technology implementation and support services to microfinance institutions (MFIs), announced today that Daryl Skoog, former head of technology at Opportunity International, has been named ...
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April 18, 2012 - 12:40pm
from Microfinance Africa
Microplanet Press Release
MicroPlanet brings together a world-class team of technology professionals to support microfinance sector
WASHINGTON and DENVER – April 16, 2012 –
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April 17, 2012 - 4:27pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Yesterday afternoon, YAO members, members of the Board of Governors, several of my colleagues and I went to the Chicago premiere of Christy Turlington Burns‘s directorial debut, the powerful documentary “
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April 14, 2012 - 7:44am
from Kiva.org
The Week in Review is designed to share things that we have enjoyed reading or watching, and to discuss all things Kiva from the previous week.When George Bernard Shaw famously said that "youth is wasted on the young" he must have meant it as more of a challenge than a declaration -- and it seems young people everywhere have accepted his ...
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April 13, 2012 - 9:27pm
from myKRO
Into Poverty: Living On One Dollar, a documentary by MFI Connect co-founders Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci about their experience living on one dollar a day in Guatemala. The film follows their journey as they learn about microfinance first hand through research and by taking out a loan themselves.
Here’s the official trailer:
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April 5, 2012 - 8:33am
from RemittancesGateway
Remittances to Guatemala from expatriates working abroad rose 8 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2011, the country’s central bank said Wednesday.
Expats wired a total of $1.06 billion to their families back home in the first three months of 2012, according to a report on the Web page of the Banco de Guatemala.
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