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May 15, 2012 - 9:12pm
from Kiva.org
Energy drives every aspect of our lives. Lighting, refrigeration, hot water, and stoves are so pervasive that they almost fade from our daily consciousness. Yet, in many developing countries, an enormous fraction of the population has no access to sustainable energy.This lack of access keeps people poor. Thus the term energy ...
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May 3, 2012 - 1:46am
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
If you follow microfinance blogs, you probably know that the World Bank has released a big database called Global Findex. With muscular funding from the Gates Foundation, the World Bank ran an ambitious polling project to learn about what financial services people use and how they use them—or why they don’t. Some 150,000 people were interviewed in 148 countries. And that’s just the first round: the surveys will be repeated, the grant lasting 10 years.
It’s clear ...
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April 30, 2012 - 1:54pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Photo credit: ctsnow, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convoy_trip_in_Mogadishu.jpgEarlier this month, I was struck by an article that I read in the New York Times about recent developments in Somalia. The insurgent group al-Shabaab's decision to withdraw from the capital has created a rare opportunity for Mogadishu to stage a comeback. NYT journalist Jeffrey Gettleman
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April 30, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
Microfinance institution (MFI) AccessBank of Azerbaijan, an affiliate of Germany’s Access Microfinance Holding AG (AccessHolding), recently announced the implementation of a new service allowing customers to make loan payments by telephone. Customers who use one of the bank’s plastic debit cards can now transfer funds from their cards towards debt repayment via AccessBank’s call center.
Mr Andrew Pospielovsky, general manager of AccessBank said “AccessBank continuously tries to ...
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April 26, 2012 - 2:17pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
For far too long, dictators and warlords who have inflicted extensive atrocities on the African people have gone unpunished. This is true when one looks at the scale of crimes against humanity committed across the continent in the recent past in places such as Sudan, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia and Sierra ...
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April 25, 2012 - 5:54pm
from Acumen Fund Blog
In honor of World Malaria Day, we wanted to shine a spotlight on one of our investees working on malaria control. Malaria remains a life-threatening disease, still taking the lives of approximately 655,000 people a year, mostly African children. In 2009, Acumen Fund made an investment in
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April 23, 2012 - 12:36pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Bukky Olajide, The Guardian
Dr. Abdullahi Shehu is a Nigerian and the Director-General of GIABA, French acronym for Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Fnancing in West Africa. Shehu is a product of Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Abuja, where he obtained his B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in International Relations respectively. He got his PhD degree in Criminology at the University of Hong Kong, specialising on ...
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April 23, 2012 - 12:33pm
from Microfinance Africa
Bukky Olajide, The Guardian
Dr. Abdullahi Shehu is a Nigerian and the Director-General of GIABA, French acronym for Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Fnancing in West Africa. Shehu is a product of Ahmadu Bello ...
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April 19, 2012 - 10:20pm
from MicroCapital
The IKEA Foundation, a charitable foundation affiliated with Dutch furniture retailer IKEA, recently committed a donation of EUR 30 million (USD 39 million) to Swaayam, a pilot program that aims to boost the social, political and economic empowerment of poor women in India. Swaayam provides women with financial, literacy and leadership education as well as accessing microloans through self-help groups. The five-year program is being operated by the United Nations Development Program ...
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April 19, 2012 - 5:04am
from MicroCapital
Liberian Senate President Pro-Tempore Gbehzohngar Findley reportedly has disbursed LRD 600,000 (USD 8,100) to provide microloans for small-scale retailers in Liberia’s Grand Bassa County. Sources indicate that the funding is from Senator Findley’s personal funds rather than government coffers.
The money, disbursed evenly among sellers at six markets in Buchanan City, is the first part of a planned LRD 1.4 million (USD 18,000) revolving loan fund. The remaining money will be ...
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April 17, 2012 - 8:56pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor, The New Dawn
In keeping with his pledge to make available 1.4million Liberian dollars as micro loans for marketers in Grand Bassa County, Senate President Pro-Tempore Senator Gbehzohngar Findley has presented the first L$600,000.00 to six markets in Buchanan City. Each of the markets received a check for L$100,000.00.
Making the presentation on Friday in Buchanan, Senator Findley said the remaining markets across the county will ...
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April 17, 2012 - 8:54pm
from Microfinance Africa
By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor, The New Dawn
In keeping with his pledge to make available 1.4million Liberian dollars as micro loans for marketers in Grand Bassa County, Senate President Pro-Tempore Senator Gbehzohngar Findley has presented the first L$600,000.00 to six markets in Buchanan ...
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April 17, 2012 - 11:12am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The agenda for the upcoming Earth summit in Rio this June has a glaring hole: land rights.I have spent the last two years investigating the global epidemic of land grabs for a book. Saudi ...
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April 16, 2012 - 4:59pm
from MicroCapital
The Sri Lankan government recently released a new draft law to regulate microfinance, which would establish a Microfinance Regulatory and Supervisory Authority (MRSA) run by a five-person board of directors. The goal of MRSA is to “strengthen and develop and quantitatively improve the Microfinance business, to ensure its integrity and transparency, to maintain the confidence of stakeholders in the business, and minimize losses by establishing and enforcing standards of accounting, ...
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April 15, 2012 - 6:30pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
These days no self-respecting western reporter dares to describe anything potentially "primitive" in Africa without a sophisticated disclaimer. John Humphrys's warning, as he dispatched the Today programme from Bong county, Liberia – was: "You can't come here with European ...
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April 13, 2012 - 11:40am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Last week, new figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suggested that 2011 marked the first reduction in aid for 15 years. Few countries are likely to reach 0.7% in the present economic context. Does that matter? The ...
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April 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/495
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 106
April 12, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 150 million
to the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated July 21, ...
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April 11, 2012 - 3:41pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Last week, on Thursday, April 5, Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika died of cardiac arrest, and his vice president,
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April 3, 2012 - 8:41pm
from BRAC Blog
By Rod Dubitsky, Board Member, BRAC USA
In this highly partisan political season, where economic calamity is deemed inevitable if the wrong party is elected, “The Coming Prosperity” is a refreshing new entrant on the bookshelf. It is a book at odds with political rhetoric, but squares nicely with emerging global trends. The argument, in a ...
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April 2, 2012 - 6:18pm
from BRAC Blog
The following is a post by Hilary Zetlen, who recently volunteered with BRAC Uganda's health program.
Somehow I managed to get from Rwanda to Zambia over the last week by a combination of boda, matatu, feet, bus, hitchhiking, and ferry, which is a subject for another entry - but now I finally have time to write a bit about ...
