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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 ...
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May 25, 2012 - 4:42pm
from The Ladder
This week, the Global Assets Project (GAP) hosted an event titled “Tracking Progress Toward Financial Inclusion”, where we along with panelists from Mix Market, the ...
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May 25, 2012 - 4:13pm
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: ResponsAbility Reaches Deals Totaling $7m with ...MicroCapitalResponsAbility Social Investments, a Swiss microfinance investment manager, has reached six investment ...
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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 ...
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May 25, 2012 - 12:08pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From GhanaWeb
Ghana on Wednesday hosted the maiden International Microinsurance Conference to provide the industry with creative ideas and practical implementation to manage livelihood risks.
Learning sessions have therefore been designed to provide international perspective on opportunities and challenges involved in providing micro insurance services, taking into consideration the current stage of development of the industry.
The event was organised ...
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May 25, 2012 - 12:04pm
from Microfinance Africa
From GhanaWeb
Ghana on Wednesday hosted the maiden International Micro insurance Conference to provide the industry with creative ideas and practical implementation to manage livelihood risks.
Learning sessions have therefore been designed to provide international ...
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May 25, 2012 - 11:25am
from Mobile Money Africa
OBINNA CHIMA THISDAY Renaissance Capital (RenCap) has called for policies that will stimulate the growth of mobile banking in Nigeria. The international financial advisory firm in a report Tuesday expressed concern that why the use of the banking platform has recorded significant success in Kenya, same could not be said of Nigeria. It added: “The
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May 25, 2012 - 2:42am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
· A remarkable sounding experiment – randomizing the freedom to short-sell stocks – is covered on Bloomberg. They worked with a money manager and randomized which stocks they changed the supply of lendable shares in, working with over $580 million in securities. Bottom line seems to be that positive and negative shocks on short-selling supply had no impacts on prices or ...
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May 24, 2012 - 8:54pm
from The Ladder
The main takeaway from the Global Assets Project’s “Tracking Progress toward Financial Access” event at the New America Foundation this week was that we must learn how to apply the lessons learned from the data to further financial access for the poor. The event’s central concern, as articulated by Jamie Zimmerman, Director of the Global ...
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May 24, 2012 - 4:21pm
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
The 2011 Global Mobile Money: service in which the mobile phone is used to access financial services. '>mobile money Adoption Survey allowed us to identify 8 fast-growing mobile money services that are following the path of M-PESA in Kenya. Six of these 8 services are in East Africa, and after Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, the mobile money wave is now reaching Rwanda.
In this blog post, we feature MTN MobileMoney in Rwanda, one ...
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May 24, 2012 - 2:40pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
Homogeneity is out; diversity is in. Moving clients to the center of the microfinance discourse is producing new data on who they are and how they use (or could use) financial services.
Financial inclusion means much more than simply having or not having a bank account: it goes beyond the mere availability of services to their adoption and usage. The recently published
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May 24, 2012 - 2:23pm
from The Ladder
A version of this post was originally published on NextBillion.netKenya’s financial market has caught the world’s attention. The rise of mobile money in Kenya has become the interest of financial inclusion experts, the excitement of mobile network operators, and an opportunity for financial institutions to rethink their products and services. Last year alone, mobile phones transferred over 900 billion KSh ...
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May 24, 2012 - 11:04am
from Mobile Money Africa
WINFRED KAGWE AND ANN GAKUNGA THE STAR The biggest mobile money service, M-Pesa, is eyeing increased cash transactions from more local banks as the concept of mobile banking becomes firmly rooted in the market. Safaricom has added 12 more financial institutions to its transactions network making a total of 132 financial institutions connected to M-pesa.
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May 24, 2012 - 6:26am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Jordan: “Microfund for Women beneficiaries’ families to be included in health coverage”
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May 24, 2012 - 6:19am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Kenya: M-Pesa Taps Into Pesapoint's National Network"
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May 23, 2012 - 5:48pm
from Innovations for Poverty Action Blog
This blog was originally posted on the USAID Microlinks Blog after Aishwarya Ratan's presentation at their After Hours Seminar #61, "Matching Products with Preferences: ...
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May 23, 2012 - 2:34pm
from MicroCapital
Grameen Foundation, a US-based nonprofit that helps microfinance institutions (MFIs) replicate the model of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank; KfW Bankengruppe, the German development bank; and the Access Africa Fund, a US-based for-profit limited liability company launched by nonprofit CARE International, have each purchased a 25-percent stake in Musoni Kenya, a Kenyan MFI that provides financial services via mobile phone. The MFI focuses on the portion of the population that lacks access to the ...
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May 23, 2012 - 1:11pm
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
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May 22, 2012 - 8:37pm
from MicroCapital
Event Name: African Finance & Investment Forum 2012: Financial Inclusion through SMEs & Cooperatives
Event Date: June 17 – June 19, 2012
Event Location: Rabobank Headquarters, Utrecht and Floriade – Venlo, Netherlands
See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar Here: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events
Cost: Attendees ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:21pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, From Ghanaian Chronicle
As a means of protecting household and small business in the informal sector from vulnerability such as natural disaster, sudden illness or death, the National Insurance Commission of Ghana (NIC) and Deutsche Gesellechaft Fur International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) are organizing an international micro insurance conference in Ghana.
The conference which will take place at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra ...
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