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May 23, 2012 - 12:54pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Researchers have long recognized the importance of choosing interviewer characteristics while designing their fieldwork – for example female interviewers are often utilized to explore topics related to domestic violence and respondents of both sexes are more likely to disclose sexual abuse to female interviewers than to male ones. Another key consideration is the degree of familiarity between interviewer ...
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May 21, 2012 - 4:21pm
from Microcredit Summit Campaign Secretariat Blog
Congratulations to this week's winner of the Raffle for Institutional Action Plan Submitters, Fonkoze of Haiti!Fonkoze is Haiti’s alternative bank for the organized poor. In fact, it is a family of three institutions working together shoulder-to-shoulder towards a single compelling mission: building the economic foundations for democracy in Haiti by ...
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May 17, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The Boma Project, a nonprofit organization in northern Kenya that aims to improve the ability of women to earn their own incomes, recently has become the first African organization to be certified by Grameen Foundation, a US-based nonprofit, on the Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) Advanced Standards of Use. PPI is a tool for estimating and tracking the poverty rates of their clients. The Standards of Use establish the criteria an organization must meet to accurately and transparently ...
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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 - 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 11, 2012 - 7:49pm
from Microcredit Summit Campaign Secretariat Blog
The Microcredit Summit Campaign would like to thank everyone who participated in the Virtual Conference on May 2, 3, and 4 entitled “Extending the Conversation on Reaching the Poorest: Another look at the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit.” A lot of great ideas were covered, and a great many thoughts and experiences shared which ...
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May 11, 2012 - 12:44pm
from BRAC Blog
The following is an excerpt from and article by Josh Kwan published in the Spring 2012 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
First, the good news. More children in places of poverty are attending school than ever before.2 Thanks to a major push by governments and donors, many countries ...
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May 9, 2012 - 11:17pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
When President Calderón of Mexico announced the creation of a National Council for Financial Inclusion, one of the first tasks he assigned was to ensure all financial data included statistics on financial inclusion:
“I would also like to urge the Minister of Treasury, in his capacity as Minister and as member of such Council, not to wait two or three years to conduct the financial inclusion surveys. … Every time the Minister receives financial information related to the ...
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May 8, 2012 - 1:10pm
from BRAC Blog
The following was originally posted by BRAC USA President and CEO Susan Davis on the World Education blog.With the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 on our ...
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May 4, 2012 - 10:10am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
I was sceptical at first when colleagues in London asked whether anyone in the Haiti field office would like to take part in the Live Below the Line challenge (LBL). The idea behind the challenge is to raise awareness of extreme poverty by consuming just £1 worth of food ...
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April 30, 2012 - 2:01pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The future of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas has been in the news again recently, with the 30th anniversary of the conflict between Britain and Argentina and the increasingly bold rhetoric of Argentinian politicians. The discussion is treated in the press as a diplomatic and political issue, but little has been written about it from a ...
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April 27, 2012 - 12:26pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Triple Pundit
For those of us who follow microfinance news closely (I’m not the only one out there who gets “microfinance” Google alerts, right?) it’s been hard to see some of the trash talking about the industry in mainstream media in the last couple of years. Critics point to greed via excessive interest rates imposed on the poor, and inappropriate ...
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April 27, 2012 - 12:24pm
from Microfinance Africa
From Triple Pundit
For those of us who follow microfinance news closely (I’m not the only one out there who gets “microfinance” Google alerts, right?) it’s been hard to see some of the trash ...
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April 26, 2012 - 11:13am
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Mobile Money: service in which the mobile phone is used to access financial services. '>mobile money line managers cannot bring about success on their own; they need support from senior management. But, where does mobile money sit among the competing priorities of MNO executives?
Watch the interview with Maarten Boute, CEO of Digicel Haiti and Isaac Nsereko, CMO of MTN Uganda who candidly share the challenges they have faced ...
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April 23, 2012 - 2:30pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
The Smart Campaign recently released the following press release to announce fourteen microfinance organizations with outstanding Codes of Ethics.
Washington, DC, April 18, 2012 — The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate ...
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April 19, 2012 - 3:00pm
from myKRO
Here’s a cool video from Fonkoze, a Haitian MFI, that discusses how it has helped people recover from poverty following the 2010 earthquake:
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April 18, 2012 - 3:10pm
from Innovations for Poverty Action Blog
“Has anyone in your family had cholera in the last 6 months?” the surveyor asks. “Yes. Five. Wait, no, six” the head of the household responds. Another family member sitting on the front step of their straw-thatched hut chimes in, “No, no, it’s seven.”
While cholera in Haiti has received renewed media coverage in the past few days, following the launch of a
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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 13, 2012 - 10:27am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
Ghana Business News - Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has seen more than its share of both natural and man-made disasters. In a country like Haiti, microfinance not only helps to create jobs and income, but becomes a relief and survival strategy after disaster. Sarah Bel, Information Officer for the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility, reports on how public-private partnerships play an important role to scale up quality and affordable ...
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