Countries & Regions

Microfinance in Guyana:

May 25, 2012 - 5:02pm from Mundo Microfinanzas
CDBProyectan moderado crecimiento para 2012 en la región. Los países del Caribe registraron durante 2011 resultados económicos divergentes, todavía bajo el impacto de la crisis económica y financiera global, y se aguarda que 2012 presente índices de un moderado crecimiento, de entre el 1 y el 1,5 %, según estimaciones del Banco ...
May 19, 2012 - 2:53am from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) El Fondo Europeo de Inversiones (EIF) y la sociedad cooperativa Crédal firmaron un acuerdo de garantía mediante la cual apoyarán a microempresas y emprendedores autoempleados en Bélgica.CrédalLa transacción fue rubricada en el marco del programa europeo Progress Microfinance, auspiciado por la ...
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
April 6, 2012 - 5:53pm from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, and the nonprofit Qatar Development Bank (QDB) have launched the SME Toolkit, an online platform, in Qatar [1]. The SME Toolkit provides entrepreneurs information and educational resources intended to assist in implementing improved business practices, accessing finance and entering new markets [1]. The service is intended to “help smaller businesses improve their performance while supporting ...
September 5, 2011 - 6:00am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
What is the biggest single drag on the beleaguered global economy? Opponents of globalisation might point to the current crisis, which shrank the world economy
April 27, 2011 - 3:51pm from Private Sector Development Blog
Emiko Todoroki, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, the World Bank and the chief organizer of the Caribbean Remittance Forum Talking about remittances, that is, sending money to a home country in the Caribbean region is not new. In fact, it is an everyday issue. Remittances are an important source of income to the world’s poor, and certainly the case in the Caribbean Region. For example, remittances represent more than 20% of GDP in Guyana; and almost one in two households in ...