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Microfinance in Jordan:

May 25, 2012 - 7:57pm from AidData: The First Tranche
Global Integrity broke 'open government' down into three core values: information transparency, public engagement, and accountability. Amina Az Zubair, CEO of Nigeria’s Centre for Development Policy Solutions, George Ndungu, National Coordinator for the Kenya Youth Network ...
May 25, 2012 - 4:00pm from MicroCapital
ResponsAbility Social Investments, a Swiss microfinance investment manager, has reached six investment deals with three microfinance institutions (MFIs)in Africa. Two loans each were disbursed to Kenyan Women Finance Trust (KWFT), a Kenyan MFI; MicroCred Ivory Coast, an MFI affiliated with MicroCred Group of France; and Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises Limited (PRIDE), an MFI based in Tanzania. ResponsAbility SICAV Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF), a microfinance ...
May 25, 2012 - 3:58am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 25, 2012 - 3:23am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 24, 2012 - 11:09pm from Private Sector Development Blog
On Tuesday, we looked at the disappointing performance of 2005’s SEZ Act when measured against the Government of India’s stated goals. But the Indian government has an ambitious new plan to spur industrial growth, create 100 million jobs and increase ...
May 24, 2012 - 10:52am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 24, 2012 - 6:26am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 24, 2012 - 6:00am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
As the presidential election process gets under way in Egypt this week, an equally important debate has been going on in London about new ways to bring about the country's economic development.Together with Tunisia, Egypt has been chosen as a new area of operation for the multilateral European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
May 24, 2012 - 5:01am from MicroCapital
Switzerland’s responsAbility Social Investments AG recently reported to MicroCapital that it has made investments equivalent to USD 6.9 million in Bolivian microfinance institution (MFI) Crecer and Colombian MFI Fundacion Mundo Mujer (FMM) Popayan. Crecer received USD 750,000 from the responsAbility SICAV Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF) and USD 2.5 million from the responsAbility Global Microfinance Fund (rAGMF). FMM Popayan received the equivalent of USD 3.6 million in local currency, USD ...
May 23, 2012 - 3:31am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 23, 2012 - 3:26am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 23, 2012 - 3:22am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 22, 2012 - 6:21pm from Private Sector Development Blog
To sustain its impressive growth rates, the Government of India is looking for new sources of growth. Last year, the Cabinet approved an ambitious new National Manufacturing ...
May 22, 2012 - 5:29am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 22, 2012 - 5:25am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 22, 2012 - 5:19am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
May 9, 2012 - 3:11pm from MicroCapital
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 2012, HSBC staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be deployed to provide technical assistance to ...
May 8, 2012 - 2:14pm from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, is sponsoring a series of workshops for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt “on how to implement sound corporate governance standards to improve their performance, increase access to finance and foster sustained growth.” The program is intended to increase the development SMEs, which some consider a major component of the Egyptian economy. The workshops are partially supported ...
May 2, 2012 - 3:39am from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Hasta el próximo lunes 14 de mayo, a las 12 pm (hora del este de los Estados Unidos), las IMFs y stakeholders ligados al campo de las microfinanzas pueden hacer comentarios y observaciones sobre los Estándares Universales que guiarán a las instituciones en la gestión del desempeño social.La invitación a esta ronda ...
April 25, 2012 - 1:45pm from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Grameen-Jameel Loans $1.5m to Jordan Micro Credit Company ...MicroCapitalGrameen-Jameel Microfinance Limited, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel ...