Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Laos:
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May 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.Data in the World Bank's
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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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April 24, 2012 - 3:31pm
from Kiva.org
Viet Nam is best represented by its contrasting environment, the mountainous north and the southern coastal lowlands; the months of torrential rain and the hot sunny season; the rural agrarian economy and the frenzied industrial cities. But Viet Nam, roughly the size of New Mexico, is united by its optimism. The s-shaped country borders China, Laos and ...
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January 30, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Event Name: Invest in Mekong Region Marketplace
Event Date: February 23, 2012
Event Location: Khemara Angkor Hotel, Siem Reap, Cambodia
See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar at: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events
Summary of Event:
Planned to coincide with the Capacity Building for Partnerships at the same venue on February 20-22, ...
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January 20, 2012 - 3:39am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
· A New paper has innovative way of getting data on H1B migrants – they obtained administrative data through a Freedom of Information Act request – and use this for most comprehensive look yet at how high-skilled migrants coming through H1B compare to natives.
· Chris Blattman follows up on my Monday post on refereeing with
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August 2, 2011 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The benefits of south-south co-operation (developing countries sharing resources) are appearing in a fresh light. Emerging economies, notably China and India, are grabbing headlines as growing financial powers that are substantially increasing their investments in Africa and Asia. Justifiably so, as together the two countries account for ...
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July 15, 2011 - 3:02pm
from The Ladder
Back in February we hosted Maurice Lim Miller of the Family Independence Initiative at an event ("Social Innovation and Community Solutions for a New War on Poverty") that discussed the FII and the innovative work Maurice and his team were doing to fight poverty. FII is a family and community directed approach that tries to build on the strengths of families in need and lets them have great sway in deciding how they ...
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June 13, 2011 - 12:51pm
from Google news - microfinance
MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP-UP: Rural and Microfinance in the Lower Mekong Region ...MicroCapitalThis document reviews ...
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June 13, 2011 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
By Binh T Nguyen and Robert Vogel, published by Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2011, 126 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.9.51104/
This document reviews the microfinance sectors in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and Vietnam over the last ten years, focusing on policy environment, institutions and market outcomes in an effort to compare the ...
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May 30, 2011 - 8:23am
from Google news - microfinance
PHL Embassy orients Laos students on microfinanceGMANews.TVThe speaker on microfinance was Marilyn Manila, the Country Representative for Laos of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development-Mutually Reinforcing Institutions International ...
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May 11, 2011 - 7:26pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
About ten years ago when I was posted in Laos, I had the opportunity to visit several key microfinance stakeholders in Vietnam’s microfinance industry. Last month I went back to accompany HRH Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary General’s
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March 30, 2011 - 9:16pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Countries that suffer from major natural disasters always receive offers of aid from around the world. As one would expect, neighboring and allied states are particularly likely to offer aid, and the major contributors tend to be those countries that are also large donors of official development assistance (ODA). But the list also includes countries that one does not normally think of as aid donors.A Wikipedia page which has been tracking
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