Countries & Regions

Microfinance in Hungary:

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 ...
December 23, 2011 - 9:41am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
As part of its EU presidency, Poland played host to last week's EU DevDays. Next month the country's new development co-operation act comes ...
August 22, 2011 - 4:16pm from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Mounting tensions and further action by anti-government forces means that the unrest in Libya is the focus of the news. The humanitarian effects of the unrest are growing -
July 11, 2011 - 9:06am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Human rights are universal. Few people would deny that everyone should be healthy and well fed, treated equally, and able to live in an environmentally sustainable way.Similarly, regardless of political or religious allegiance, few would disagree that current population growth levels in many countries across Africa and Asia are ...
June 30, 2011 - 5:09pm from MicroCapital
The European Investment Fund (EIF), a public-private partnership (PPP) that supports financial institutions in Europe that serve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has agreed to loan EUR 5 million (USD 7.2 million) to Šiauliu Bankas, a Lithuanian bank that provides finance to micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The deal was signed under the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF), a microfinance initiative established with funding from the European ...
June 6, 2011 - 10:20am from Microfinance Focus
  Microfinance Focus, June 6, 2011: One of the major European SME loan guarantor, European Investment Fund (EIF) has recently signed a EUR 108 million guarantee agreement with Hungary’s SME bank, Budapest Bank to support Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) under the EU Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP). EIF also signed a EUR 94 million guarantee contract for Budapest Leasing that will allow Hungarian entrepreneurs to access equipments for their ...