Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Guinea:
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May 17, 2012 - 9:02am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Its vast rainforests and coral rich waters are home to more than 250 indigenous tribes, the most linguistically diverse population on Earth. But it is also the scene of a brutal and under-reported conflict.Indonesia took control of the western half of New Guinea – now the provinces of Papua and ...
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May 15, 2012 - 10:48am
from CGAP Technology Blog
Joep Roest is a Financial Inclusion Specialist with the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP). PFIP is a Pacific-wide programme helping to provide sustainable financial services to low income households. It is a joint project of the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has received additional funding support from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the European ...
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May 14, 2012 - 1:19pm
from MicroCapital
National Insurance Timor-Leste (NITL), an insurance company in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, has partnered with local microfinance institutions (MFIs) Tuba Rai Metin and Moris Rasik to introduce regulated microinsurance products in the country. NITL will underwrite the products, which will be distributed by Tuba Rai Metin and Moris Rasik to their clients. The first two products, “Credit Life Plus,” which was launched in April, and “Asuransi Protesaun ba Familia,” launched in ...
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May 14, 2012 - 7:31am
from Mambu Blog
Bonnes nouvelles, Mambu is now available in French! We’re happy to be able to expand our offering of microfinance software to the more than 200 million French speakers worldwide. This includes the estimated 115 million people across 31 francophone African countries including Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dijibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, ...
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May 4, 2012 - 3:47pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has partnered with the eight countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA in French) to increase access to finance for the region’s small-scale businesses. IFC is developing private credit bureaus and sharing information with UEMOA in an effort to improve awareness of credit in the region, lower operations costs and improve risk mitigation. No timeframe for the project was ...
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April 23, 2012 - 12:36pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Bukky Olajide, The Guardian
Dr. Abdullahi Shehu is a Nigerian and the Director-General of GIABA, French acronym for Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Fnancing in West Africa. Shehu is a product of Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Abuja, where he obtained his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in International Relations respectively. He got his PhD degree in Criminology at the University of Hong Kong, specialising on ...
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April 23, 2012 - 12:33pm
from Microfinance Africa
Bukky Olajide, The Guardian
Dr. Abdullahi Shehu is a Nigerian and the Director-General of GIABA, French acronym for Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Fnancing in West Africa. Shehu is a product of Ahmadu Bello ...
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April 17, 2012 - 11:12am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The agenda for the upcoming Earth summit in Rio this June has a glaring hole: land rights.I have spent the last two years investigating the global epidemic of land grabs for a book. Saudi ...
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April 16, 2012 - 12:22pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Deepika Amirapu, The Economic Times
HYDERABAD: One of India’s oldest microfinance institutions is heading to Africa to try and spread its risks because of the troubles the sector is facing at home. The Basix Group, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hyderabad, is looking to acquire ...
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April 16, 2012 - 12:19pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Deepika Amirapu, The Economic Times
HYDERABAD: One of India’s oldest microfinance ...
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April 15, 2012 - 6:30pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
These days no self-respecting western reporter dares to describe anything potentially "primitive" in Africa without a sophisticated disclaimer. John Humphrys's warning, as he dispatched the Today programme from Bong county, Liberia – was: "You can't come here with European ...
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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 2, 2012 - 10:51pm
from MicroCapital
Australian micropayment service provider Mobile Handset Initiated Transactions (mHITs) announced that it has partnered with micropayment service provider GCash to deploy an “international remittance corridor to the Philippines” that allows account holders in Australiato send funds to mobile wallet users in the Philippines [1]. Recipients do not need a bank account or transfer agent to use the service [1]. As MicroCapital reported in March 2012,
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March 29, 2012 - 10:47am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
By: Atty. John V. Owens, MABS Chief of Party
During my presentation, I shared with the audience some of the latest relevant updates and trends that we are seeing from around the world in terms of the uses of mobile money and mobile banking services.
Viral Marketing & Use of Social Networks
One interesting theme is the use of viral marketing to ...
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March 28, 2012 - 8:21pm
from Microfinance Africa
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March 22, 2012 - 3:22pm
from Kiva.org
This is the first of a three part series taking a closer look at Benin, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Beninese households, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker. We hope you enjoy.
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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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February 13, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Few would disagree with the main message of the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report, published last month: the future is full of ...
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February 8, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
We all know that China has firmly arrived in Africa, but do we know what that means in practice, or how things are changing? Much has been said about this phenomenon, but often based on little research and/or tainted with a hardly disguised nationalistic slant in which China is seen as a competitor or ...
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January 25, 2012 - 1:30pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
A leadership contest for the African Union, pitting a regional political and economic powerhouse, South Africa, against the small west African country of Gabon, has galvanised the AU summit.The race between Jean Ping, who is seeking a second term, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the South African home affairs minister and President Jacob Zuma's ...
