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March 8, 2013 - 7:15pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The funeral of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took place on International Women's Day – a fitting day of departure for "the president of the poor" who was loved by millions, especially by women, the poorest.When Chávez was elected ...
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January 23, 2013 - 3:28am
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the US-based World Bank Group, and the private-sector office of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a multilateral mechanism established by the G20 group of 20 large economies, have announced that each of the organizations will invest USD 5 million in Root Capital, a US-based nonprofit social investment fund. The aim is to increase market and capital access for 300,000 small-scale farmers in ...
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November 28, 2012 - 9:22pm
from MicroCapital
Fundacion Microfinanzas Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), a nonprofit affiliate of Spanish banking heavyweight BBVA Group, recently has taken a 31-percent stake in microfinance institution (MFI) Asociación Dominicana para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (ADOPEM) of the Dominican Republic for an undisclosed sum. This percentage is reportedly expected to grow over time. According to Manuel Mendez del Rio Piovich, President of Fundacion Microfinanzas BBVA, both parties have the same social ...
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October 10, 2012 - 7:00am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Banco Fie de Bolivia resultó la microfinanciera mejor posicionada en el ranking anual Microfinanzas Américas: las 100 mejores, edición 2012, que por noveno año consecutivo fue presentado por el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (
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September 28, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The eight annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which concluded on Wednesday, September 26, focused on the theme “Designing for Impact,” which was intended to promote the use of creativity and innovation to drive change, particularly through social investment and the empowerment of women. Approximately 150 new commitments to various projects were announced, as were progress reports for commitments made in previous years. The new commitments include:
-NGO 2.0 Shaping the Next ...
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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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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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July 5, 2011 - 4:46pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Franz Chávez, Inter Press Service
A non-governmental organisation set up by five women 25 years ago in Bolivia gave birth to what is now the largest microcredit bank in the country, catering to those otherwise marginalised from the financial system.
The Banco FIE S.A. began its history as a small microfinance NGO in a modest office in the city of La Paz, with just one computer. From these humble origins emerged a new system for providing ...
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June 3, 2011 - 4:07pm
from Main Street Microfinance
On Wednesday we had a orientation at ACCION USA for our summer interns- 14 interns joined from New York and remotely from Atlanta and Boston through our gotomeeting platform and via Skype.
A few of the most memorable moments were when our “historian” Carmen told stories about our first clients, seeing the interns in Boston live through Skype video and of course, our ...
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