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April 19, 2012 - 2:50pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From IRIN
The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance (Sharakeh), which represents 11 microfinance non-profit institutions whose total loan portfolio was US$75 million by the end of 2011.
Between 2007 and 2011, the number of ...
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April 19, 2012 - 2:47pm
from Microfinance Africa
From IRIN
The demand for microloans has risen steeply in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in recent years, according to data from the Palestinian Network ...
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April 18, 2012 - 4:13pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Sudan burns – and the world yawns. Clashes along the north-south border multiply and spread, presaging all-out war – and the UN talks vaguely of new sanctions. Khartoum's parliament brands newly independent South Sudan
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March 22, 2012 - 1:59pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
There has been a girls' school at Irbid refugee camp in northern Jordan since 1952. No one could tell me how many girls attended the school at that time, but now it operates a shift system to cope with demand. About 850 girls attend the imaginatively-titled Irbid camp girls' school number 1 five days a week, meeting for classes between 7am and 11.30am. ...
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March 14, 2012 - 1:18pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
I’ve been reading a good bit on psychological responses to conflict and disaster for on-going work and am struck by the tone of discussion in the popular press soon after a potentially traumatic event. In these reports, trauma among the survivors is often presumed widespread and the focus is on its expected costs and consequences. However more recent academic work on this topic argues that an exclusive focus on the traumatized misses most of the story.
According to
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February 28, 2012 - 2:17am
from MicroCapital
Earlier this year, Equitas Micro Finance India Private Limited (Equitas) demerged its microfinance business. Following the demerger, Equitas will operate both as a non-bank financial company (NBFC) and as an investment company. Singhivi Investment and Finance Private Limited (SIFPL) will own and operate Equitas’ microfinance portfolio. SIFPL is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equitas, which previously has provided vehicle and housing financing.
Equitas will transfer INR 500 million ...
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December 22, 2011 - 4:30pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
This advent season, my church’s sermon series is “He is our King.” It’s a refreshingly challenging one as it looks not so much to a meek baby in the manger, but the hope of a powerful God coming to meet humankind within drastic poverty and political oppression. On a recent Sunday, as I listened to the pastor speak to the political and cultural environment at the time that Christ was born, I realized how different my current context is living in 21st-century Chicago. I’m grateful for my ...
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September 22, 2011 - 1:06pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
As Friday's expected Palestinian bid for UN membership draws closer, an overlooked issue is the untenable situation of the Palestinian population, who are subjected to collective poverty, misery and desperation, and the role that international humanitarian assistance plays in ...
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September 5, 2011 - 8:34pm
from Kiva.org
This month’s Passport Series focuses on Lebanon! Lebanon is a country with stunning mountain scenery, a beautiful Mediterranean climate, and a highly diverse population. Follow us throughout the month of September as we learn about Lebanon’s background, its microfinance sector, and Kiva’s presence within its borders. History Lebanon is a Middle Eastern nation that sits on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its bustling capital, Beirut, is ...
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August 22, 2011 - 4:33pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is no longer fitting to wonder whether Gaza is a problem: of course it is, and will continue to be for as long as its residents are forced to survive on aid for lack of economic opportunity and are denied the simple freedoms to pursue a decent and peaceful life. Whenever violence breaks out in or around the Gaza Strip, whether Gazans are responsible or ...
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August 12, 2011 - 11:51am
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Desmond Bentley, Israel 21C
Koret Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) has united with the San Francisco-based non-profit organization Kiva Microfunds in a groundbreaking venture aimed at helping Bedouin women of the Negev, Arab Israelis in northern Israel and other low-income sectors of Israeli society.
As part of Kiva’s first partnership with ...
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August 12, 2011 - 11:48am
from Microfinance Africa
By Desmond Bentley, Israel 21C
Koret Israel Economic Development Fund (KIEDF) has united with the San Francisco-based non-profit organization Kiva Microfunds in a groundbreaking venture aimed at helping Bedouin women of the Negev, Arab Israelis in northern Israel and other low-income sectors of Israeli society.
As part of Kiva’s first ...
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July 5, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
On 9 July south Sudan will emerge as Africa's youngest state. Considerable effort is going into searching for how the country can ramp up its human capacity for economic transformation. Juba University might just provide an answer.Critics of the role of universities in economic transformation argue that higher education takes too ...
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June 7, 2011 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Since its initial investment in SKS Microfinance, an India-based microfinance institution (MFI), Sequoia Capital, a US-based venture capital firm, has experienced significant gains on paper followed by partial losses of those gains.
Before other venture capital firms were investing in SKS, Sequoia invested USD 11.5 million in the MFI [1]. By the end of 2008, venture capital firms had invested a total of USD 75 million in SKS [1]. SKS went public in July 2010, and its share price ...
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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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March 28, 2011 - 4:21pm
from Universal Postal Union blog
Guest contribution by Hans Boon
New initiatives are seen in South America: in Ecuador and Uruguay the Posts have entered into new partnership agreements with banks to mobilize small savings and collect or distribute payments, while Brazil’s ECT Correios has launched the selection process for the strategic partner of Banco Postal.
In Africa the developments in postal financial inclusion are on the fast lane: in ...
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February 22, 2011 - 6:13pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Over the past few months I have been looking at lots of development finance data as visualized by new and very cool mapping, charting, and data mash up tools. The combination of easily accessible data on development finance and open data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators allows computer software geniuses (and my own students who have taken a few GIS courses) to visualize data in useful ...
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November 22, 2010 - 6:37pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Bangalore, India. Sociopreneurship India 2010, organizan el portal para emprendedores YourStory y el canal de negocios CNBC-TV18, 23 de noviembre de 2010, Royal Orchid Hotel. Promoción del empresariado social, inversión social y microfinanzas. Con Tara Thiagarajan, presidenta Madura Microfinance; Shereen Bhan (foto), editora ejecutiva de CNBC; ...
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