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May 22, 2012 - 12:15pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
WASHINGTON, FRANKFURT, Germany and ATLANTA, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Investment in Musoni Kenya will Expand Access to Financial Services
Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund announced they have each purchased a 25 percent stake in Musoni Kenya, the first microfinance institution to provide financial services to the poor entirely via mobile phones. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it provides microloans largely to people who are underserved by the formal ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:11pm
from Microfinance Africa
WASHINGTON, FRANKFURT, Germany and ATLANTA, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Investment in Musoni Kenya will Expand Access to Financial Services
Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund announced they have each ...
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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 - 12:40pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
LONDON, May 15 (Bernama) — A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and Afghanistan as a finalist for the Ashden Awards, the world’s leading green energy prize.
The finalists will compete for over 120,000 pound prize money with the winners to be announced at a prestigious ceremony ...
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May 15, 2012 - 12:38pm
from Microfinance Africa
LONDON, May 15 (Bernama) — A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and ...
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May 15, 2012 - 7:47am
from Google news - microfinance
Indian Microfinance Provider Finalist For Global Green Energy AwardBernamaLONDON, May 15 (Bernama) -- A microfinance provider in south Indian state Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and Afghanistan as a finalist for ...
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May 14, 2012 - 8:36pm
from Creating a World Without Poverty
Alex Counts is president, CEO and founder of Grameen Foundation, and author of several books, including Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World.
I first met Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Civil Society, Markets and ...
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May 3, 2012 - 4:01am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
Philippine Daily Inquirer – The Philippines is considered one of the laggards in the Asia-Pacific region in the area of financial services reach, ranking only 12th out of 15 countries in terms of the proportion of working-age population who have accounts with banks or other financial institutions.
Results of a regional survey, done recently by various institutions including the US Agency for International Development, showed that only 26.56 percent of Filipinos ...
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May 2, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Seetalavajit Sabayjai, The Nation
The Bank of Thailand is attempting to encourage loan sharks to take part in the country’s official ...
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April 30, 2012 - 11:35am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Where does Nike make its trainers? Or Wrangler its jeans? In the same place Raleigh make its bikes, Philip Morris makes its cigarettes, Korean companies make LED lights, and giant corporations like Walmart, Mothercare, Tesco and Reebok make practically everything from pharmaceuticals to fishing rods and baseball caps. The Chittagong ...
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April 27, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
The Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance Foundation (GCAMF), which was founded in Luxembourg by French bank Credit Agricole and Grameen Trust of Bangladesh, has reported to MicroCapital that it has issued a loan of USD 1.25 million with a three-year term and a one-year grace period to Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), a Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI). HKL was GCAMF’s first partner in Cambodia and GCAMF currently does business with two other MFIs in Cambodia. HKL’s gross loan ...
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April 25, 2012 - 12:18pm
from Microfinance Africa
From One World South Asia
A microfinance organisation, in the southern state of ...
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April 19, 2012 - 10:03pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
WSBI works with savings banks in the developing world to increase the number of savings accounts for the poor. The ten participating banks are KPOSB Kenya, LPB Lesotho, PBU Uganda, SAPB South ...
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April 19, 2012 - 11:05am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been travelling the world in recent weeks to tell industrialised nations to stop the "tsunami" of speculative capital flowing into her country. Low interest rates and slow growth in ...
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April 18, 2012 - 9:22am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Suppose that you’re told that a program reduced the rate of dropping out of school among 15 year-olds by 17% and this reduction was statistically significant. You are also told that the same figure among 12 year-olds is 38%. You would likely take note. Suppose now you’re told that these are the effects of a conditional cash transfer program, where the dropout rate among the control group is 37.7% and 16.8%, respectively for ages 15 and 12, thus the absolute effect sizes are 6.4 percentage ...
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April 17, 2012 - 7:23pm
from Google news - microfinance
Citi Releases 2011 Global Citizenship ReportEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)“From developing the first universal children's college savings account program in the US with the City and County of San Francisco, to providing ...
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April 17, 2012 - 4:03pm
from Kiva.org
We are excited to welcome PT Ruma to the Kiva family as our latest Field Partner!PT Ruma is a telecommunications and bill pay enterprise based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In its own ...
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April 17, 2012 - 3:03pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach Initiative to be Recognized for Empowering the Poor through Mobile Phone Program
On April 19, Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit, will celebrate 15 years of empowering the world’s poorest people through financial and technology solutions at a benefit event in New York City. The foundation began its early work providing funding and other support for microfinance activities in Chiapas, Mexico, and today ...
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April 17, 2012 - 3:01pm
from Microfinance Africa
NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach Initiative to be Recognized for Empowering the Poor through Mobile Phone Program
On April 19, Grameen Foundation, a global nonprofit, will celebrate 15 years of empowering the world’s poorest ...
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April 17, 2012 - 12:21pm
from Google news - microfinance
Citi Releases 2011 Global Citizenship ReportMarketWatch (press release)"From developing the first universal children's college savings account program in the US with the City and County of San Francisco, to providing commercial support for the growth of the ...
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