Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Malaysia:
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May 18, 2012 - 12:31pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Later this month, the governing body of the International Labour Organisation is due to elect a new director-general. This election has not received as much attention as the recent appointments of other institutions like the IMF and the World Bank. Even so, it could have important consequences for the world and most of its population. The ...
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May 3, 2012 - 10:00am
from CGAP Technology Blog
This is the fifth and final post in our series on remittances and branchless banking. You can read the first four posts here. So far, we have highlighted the emerging success factors and challenges featured in our 2012 landscaping exercise. Paolo Baltao from Globe’s GCASH shared with us the lessons learned over a period of eight years during which time he led one of the first ...
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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 25, 2012 - 12:30pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Apart from empowering the economically active people, jobs are expected to be created in a N40-million strategic partnership between Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, the Lagos State Microfinance Institution (LASMI) and Cowries Micro Finance Bank.
Gbolahan Adeyemi, chairman, Poverty Alleviation Unit, in the local government, who disclosed this at an interactive session on effective tips for small business growth, ...
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April 25, 2012 - 12:30pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Hope Moses-Ashike, Business Day Online
Apart from empowering the economically active people, jobs are expected to be created in a N40-million strategic partnership between Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, the Lagos State Microfinance Institution ...
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April 23, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
The Selangor state government of Malaysia reportedly has allocated MYR 5 million (USD 1.63 million) for a microcredit scheme for rural women – also known as WALA – that is intended to supplement their household incomes. Through the program, women can apply for microloans of MYR 1,000 (USD 326) to MYR 3,000 (USD 979) to start part-time businesses of their choice. Training and support will also be provided. The initial goal is to extend the project to 200 women. No release date for the ...
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April 19, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Businesses are interested in Burma because the country is rich in natural resources and has a vast pool of young people eager to work and to consume. They have been restrained because
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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 13, 2012 - 5:21am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
India: “Microfinance Bill has to undergo major changes: Jairam Ramesh”
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April 3, 2012 - 6:34pm
from MicroCapital
After a lengthy planning process that began in 2008, the Cambodian Credit Bureau (CCB) was officially launched in Phnom Penh on March 19, 2012. The joint venture between Veda Advantage, a private company providing data analytics and risk management tools from offices in Australia and New Zealand the Cambodian Microfinance Association and the Association of Banks in Cambodia, aims to centralize loan information from Cambodia’s banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs). The bureau expects ...
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March 20, 2012 - 9:31pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From The Daily Star, Bangladesh
Islamic microfinance can be an effective tool to eradicate poverty if it ensures distributive justice to the downtrodden people, analysts said yesterday.
Poverty has multi-dimensional aspects: it means not only a lack of money but other issues such as poor access to clean water and sanitation, inadequate physical ...
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March 20, 2012 - 9:25pm
from Microfinance Africa
From The Daily Star, Bangladesh
Islamic microfinance can be an effective tool to eradicate poverty if it ensures distributive justice to the downtrodden people, analysts said ...
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March 15, 2012 - 11:32am
from MicroCapital
Telenor Pakistan Limited, a telecom operator in Pakistan with 28.5 million customers, recently announced that it will increase its focus on its mobile banking unit to face increased competition in the sector. In January, Telenor Pakistan’s mobile banking service, EasyPaisa, facilitated transactions totaling USD 3.5 million through 16,000 outlets which offer a variety of services such as microloans, bill payments and money transfers. Approximately two percent of Telenor Pakistan’s total ...
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March 6, 2012 - 5:25am
from MicroCapital
Event Name: MF Tech 2012 Conference
Event Date: June 26 to June 27, 2012
Event Location:Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar Here: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events
Cost: Packages for the two-day conference are available for non-MFI participants for USD 3,297, USD 2,798 and USD 2,299. Two-day ...
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February 23, 2012 - 5:13pm
from MicroCapital
By David S. Gibbons, Commissioned Workshop Paper, 2011 Global Microcredit Summit, June 2011, 16 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.1.13634?cid=PSD_MFGatewayBulletinEN_W_EXTIn this paper, the author argues that many studies on the impact of microfinance frame their question poorly, leading them to fail in assessing the positive impact ...
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February 6, 2012 - 9:41am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The worrying trend – and potentially illegal direction – of British aid policy showed further signs of rearing its ugly head last week, when the government
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February 3, 2012 - 8:36pm
from MicroCapital
In an effort to promote and train entrepreneurs, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a political party in Malaysia, launched a MYR 50 million (USD 16.4 million) microloan fund in January 2012. The 1MCA Micro Credit for Youth Fund is for Malaysian citizens looking to fund an existing or new business [1]. Two cooperatives affiliated with MCA, Koperasi Jayadiri Malaysia Berhad (KOJADI) and Koperasi Serbaguna Malaysia (KSM), will service the microloans [2]. Malaysian citizens between the ...
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February 2, 2012 - 8:30am
from MicroCapital
The Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) and the Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA), two trade associations with a combined membership of 64 financial institutions, have formed a joint venture with New Zealand-based credit bureau developer Veda Advantage to launch the Credit Bureau (Cambodia) Company Limited (CBC), which will maintain a database of credit information intended to help banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in making “accurate loan decisions based on borrower’s ...
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January 27, 2012 - 7:00am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The Water Dragon symbolizes new frontiers, changes and innovations. This could be good news for financial inclusion in China and the rest of the region.
East Asia and the Pacific host a variety of countries when it comes to financial inclusion. South Korea and Singapore boast excellent levels of
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January 24, 2012 - 6:01pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Africa's youth unemployment is widely recognised as a potential source of political instability. However, most of the policy proposals for addressing joblessness focus largely on stand-alone skill development efforts. They fail to recognise infrastructure as the motherboard of job creation.The International Labour Organisation, ...
