Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Malawi:
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May 24, 2012 - 9:01pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Last Friday, agricultural finance took center stage at the
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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 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 - 5:29pm
from GiveWell Blog
New cost estimates for AMF’s 2012 distributions
In a blog post in February, we noted that we had missed some costs in our estimates that were incurred by AMF’s distribution partner, Concern Universal. We undertook an assessment of these costs through discussion with Concern Universal.
In the course of our assessment, we re-visited our estimate of all other ...
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May 11, 2012 - 5:06am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Crédito: World Economic Forum)(Mundo Microfinanzas) La Schwab Foundation dio a conocer en Addis Abeba los cinco ganadores del premio Emprendedores Sociales del Año 2012, en el marco del Foro Económico Mundial para África que culmina este viernes en la capital etíope. Ellos son:Bethlehmen Tilahun Alemu, ...
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May 10, 2012 - 10:21pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
This post was co-authored with Espen Beer Prydz. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this post are entirely ours. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations.
The Lancet recently published a paper by Pronyk et al. [
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May 10, 2012 - 2:55pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
At Friday’s Chicago Booth and Zell Center Microfinance Conference, several of my colleagues and members of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity heard from Opportunity International‘s SVP of International Business Development, Dennis Ripley, who spoke as part of a panel called “New Products and Innovations in ...
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May 9, 2012 - 1:46pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Co-authors and I are soon to complete (fingers crossed) some new work on climatic shocks and neo-natal mortality. But our findings are not the topic of this post. Rather I want to discuss the necessary behind-the-scenes data construction work that had to take place before the first regression could be estimated. The work involved the aggregation of fifty plus national level microdata sets (from Demographic and Health Surveys) and then a merger with geo-coded historical weather data (from ...
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May 8, 2012 - 4:46pm
from Kiva.org
Raise your hand if you (or your parents) have an outstanding student loan. Okay, now put your hand down -- people are starting to stare.Probably about two-thirds of you raised your hand if you went to college in the United States. That means that two-thirds of you are accustomed to the excruciating realization that, after years of monthly ...
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May 8, 2012 - 4:29pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Today in the U.S., in honor of National Teacher Day, we celebrate the dedicated educators who work tirelessly to grow the next generation of future leaders and responsible members of the community. At Opportunity, we know how crucial a good education is to ensuring the future of an entire community, which is why we’ve developed school proprietor loans and other education finance ...
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May 1, 2012 - 9:36pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
A lot of progress has been made in understanding the savings behavior of poor households over the last few years. A raft of new studies are beginning to appear that promise to advance our understanding further.
But thus far, the new studies are providing as many new mysteries as answers. David Roodman does a good job of exploring the mysteries presented by one of the first ...
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April 26, 2012 - 9:30am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is not original to remark that there is a modern-day scramble for Africa taking place. Economic growth averaging around 5% on the continent for the past decade is certainly good news compared with two decades of increasing poverty. But on the other side of the coin are the reasons for that growth: the large-scale export ...
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April 25, 2012 - 5:48pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
In most of the developing world, the poor are disproportionately vulnerable to risk. Whether these risks come in the form of the death of a family member, severe illness, the loss of an asset such as livestock, or a natural disaster, these events have a particularly debilitating affect on the poor who are less able to financially absorb and recover from such shocks.
Increasingly, providing the poor with access to reliable and reasonably priced insurance instruments has become ...
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April 19, 2012 - 3:45pm
from GiveWell Blog
Since GiveWell recommended the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) in November 2011, SCI has received about $1.4 million in unrestricted funds ($500,000 of which we directly attribute to GiveWell’s recommendation), of which $1.1 million remains to be spent. We have spoken with and met with SCI to discuss its plans for using these funds.
Funds spent to date
SCI has made grants of $100,000 and $80,000 to Yemen and Senegal respectively for deworming ...
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April 19, 2012 - 2:56pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
This week, the Strauss Center’s CCAPS Program and AidDatapublished a first-of-its-kind geocoded dataset from the Government of Malawi's Aid Management Platform. These data are also available through the CCAPS dashboard, which enables users to overlay and visualize data on climate change vulnerability, conflict, and aid, and analyze how these issues ...
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April 13, 2012 - 4:57pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Last week, April 3-4, was the first Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) summit in Amsterdam, entitled “Reshaping the Future of Finance.” Two young Opportunity Malawi clients were sent to ...
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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 11, 2012 - 2:58pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Malawi narrowly escaped another convulsion last week when it took more than 48 hours for Vice-President Joyce Banda to be formally recognised as the new president, as mandated in the country's constitution, after the sudden death of
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April 11, 2012 - 1:28pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
The majority of CCT programs with schooling conditions have been found to increase enrollment rates and attendance. Far fewer of the evaluations, however, report results on learning outcomes. Those that do typically find no gains in learning, at least as assessed by test scores. The 2009 CCT review report by Fiszbein, Schady, and others summarizes four studies that measure CCT impacts on learning outcomes. The first ...
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April 11, 2012 - 7:12am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The most rapidly obsolescing part of my book, Due Diligence, is chapter 6, which reviews the statistical evidence of the impact of microfinance on poverty. Since I put the text to bed, working papers have appeared that test microcredit in
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