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May 25, 2012 - 8:30am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
If there is one constant in a crisis-strewn world, it is that the humanitarian situation in Yemen just gets worse. This time last year, Yemen's dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh was beating a long rearguard retreat against his eventual ouster. ...
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May 23, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Despite – or perhaps because of – more than 20 years of war, Somalia has a remarkably strong private sector, particularly in the money transfer, telecommunications and livestock spheres. Yet, as the 2010 Inter-Agency Standing ...
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May 22, 2012 - 9:23pm
from CGAP Technology Blog
Helen Wernik Nascimento in based in Brazil and is a technical advisor for CGAP’s Technology Program. Her work focuses around the implementation of branchless banking, in particular how beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia, the country’s largest federal conditional cash transfer relate to financial products. She holds an MA in public policy from Victoria University of Wellington and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Universidade de Brasília.
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May 22, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Uncertainty, distrust, confusion, insecurity and enormous doubt seem to be among the sentiments hounding many Afghans as they count down to the 2014 security handover by troops from Nato's International Security and Assistance Force.According to a
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May 21, 2012 - 12:23pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Emmanuel Opio, Daily Monitor
Vendors in Lira District have sued the Microfinance Support Centre (MSC) after a contract they signed for a Shs176.4 million loan, was cancelled. The 4,800 vendors now want the High Court in Lira to compel the government-owned centre to pay them Shs41 million for breach of a contract they signed through a Memorandum of Understanding.
According to the MoU signed on August 12, 2011 by the vendors headed by James Okello of ...
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May 21, 2012 - 12:20pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Emmanuel Opio, Daily Monitor
Vendors in Lira District have sued the Microfinance Support Centre (MSC) after a contract they signed for a Shs176.4 million loan, was cancelled. The 4,800 vendors now want the High Court in Lira to compel the government-owned ...
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May 21, 2012 - 6:48am
from Mobile Money Africa
MONTY MUNFORD THE KERNEL As Somaliland celebrates its 21st birthday, Africa editor Monty Munford reports on the nation’s mobile payment revolution. Today is the 21st birthday of self-proclaimed African republic Somaliland, which was born after an ill-fated union with Somalia that was compounded by the collapse of that country’s political system in 1991 and the
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May 17, 2012 - 4:47pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Elza Fiúza/ABrFestmicro 2012 abre sus puertas en Fortaleza. El V Encuentro Estadual de Microempresas y Emprendedores Individuales reunirá este viernes 18 de mayo a representantes de este segmento económico, instituciones financieras, organismos de apoyo técnico y reguladores del estado de Ceará, en el nordeste brasileño.Acceso a la ...
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May 17, 2012 - 9:02am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Papua is one of the last great frontier wildernesses. Its vast rainforests and coral rich waters are home to more than 250 indigenous tribes, the most linguistically diverse population on Earth. But it is also the scene of a brutal and under-reported conflict.Indonesia took control of the western half of New Guinea – now the provinces of Papua and ...
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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 14, 2012 - 7:31am
from Mambu Blog
Bonnes nouvelles, Mambu is now available in French! We’re happy to be able to expand our offering of microfinance software to the more than 200 million French speakers worldwide. This includes the estimated 115 million people across 31 francophone African countries including Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dijibouti, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, ...
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May 12, 2012 - 8:55am
from Central Bank of Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan Respublikası Mərkəzi Bankının (AMB) təşkilatçılığı ilə 12 may 2012-ci il tarixində Bakı şəhərində Mərkəzi Asiya, Qara Dəniz Regionu və Balkan ölkələrinin Mərkəzi Bank Sədrləri Klubunun (Klub) növbəti 27-ci toplantısı keçirilib.
Toplantı Kluba üzv dövlətlərin mərkəzi bankları arasında qarşılıqlı əməkdaşlıq əlaqələrinin müzakirə edilməsi və təcrübə mübadiləsinin aparılması məqsədilə təşkil olunub. Tədbir çərçivəsində tanınmış beynəlxalq ekspertlərin təqdimatında ...
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May 11, 2012 - 12:21pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
All this week, May 7-11, Opportunity supporters around the country, including members of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) and Board of Governors, and our own staff took part in the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line ...
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May 9, 2012 - 8:27am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
May 07Mexico: Mexico's Credit Card
Grupo Elektra's Ricardo Salinas Pliego makes his billions the old-fashioned way: by charging the poor usurious ...
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May 9, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
After the hunger crisis that engulfed east Africa last summer, there was plenty for the world to think about. After all, we'd been warned it was coming – the first alerts of a potential crisis came the previous year. But
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May 8, 2012 - 9:44pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
It’s the microfinance bête noire. The great unspeakable. The furtive shadow slinking down the narrow alleys of poverty. Yes, the consumer loan. Has microfinance really come to this, we ask? Helping the poor buy a TV? Charging 40% interest for the couch to go in front of that TV? And what about family celebrations, festivals, dowries? Is that really what microcredit is for?
Consumption lending has been creeping out from the shadows for some time, but mostly for “good” ...
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May 7, 2012 - 5:45pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/537
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No.118
May 07, 2012
To
All Authorised Dealers in Foreign Exchange
Madam/ Sir,
Release of Foreign Exchange for Miscellaneous Remittances
Attention of Authorised Dealers in foreign exchange is drawn to
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May 4, 2012 - 5:00pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
By David Roodman -
RT @JeanetteThomas1: Morduch interprets findings on formality and informality from Findex Survey http://t.co/Y2XjjGok #savings #microfinance
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May 4, 2012 - 3:47pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has partnered with the eight countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA in French) to increase access to finance for the region’s small-scale businesses. IFC is developing private credit bureaus and sharing information with UEMOA in an effort to improve awareness of credit in the region, lower operations costs and improve risk mitigation. No timeframe for the project was ...
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May 4, 2012 - 2:13pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
On March 9, my husband Roberto and I stepped off the plane in Arusha (a place I hadn’t heard of until this year), and we knew we were in for an adventure. I couldn’t wait to get started.
In 2010 I had spent time in Johannesburg while filming Bang Bang Club. I became good friends with my security guard, Stranger (yes, that was his name), who invited me to his birthday party. It was the most beautiful party I had ever been to, in the township Soweto. I met mothers, ...
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