Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Nicaragua:
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May 23, 2012 - 11:11pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) ¿Qué hace un microempresario cuando envejece y las energías ya no son las mismas para llevar y sostener un negocio?Esta pregunta fue planteada programáticamente por la Red Centroamericana y del Caribe de Microfinanzas (Redcamif) y los resultados de su exploración se presentaban este miércoles en Managua.Se trata de una ...
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May 15, 2012 - 4:09am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Crédito: Diana Dultzin/Rimisp(Mundo Microfinanzas) El Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural(Rimisp) presentó su Informe Latinoamericano Pobreza y Desigualdad 2011, un estudio que aporta nueva información sobre enormes inequidades territoriales en la región, que afecta principalmente a poblaciones rurales, ...
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May 12, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries;” by Jacqueline Urquizo; published by Accion; March 2012; 45 pages; available at:
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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 10, 2012 - 12:32pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Danielle Donza
For publically traded retail banks, valuations are at historic lows. In the microfinance industry, 2011 also saw the continued compression of valuation multiples from 2009 highs, according to the recently released Global Microfinance Equity Valuation Survey, Volume Growth and Valuation Contraction. CGAP and J.P. Morgan, with support from the
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April 30, 2012 - 9:04am
from Microfinance Focus
Accion released a report providing the financial industry with important recommendations for creating and improving services to rural residents in Latin America. This study – based on market research conducted in Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Peru – provides a detailed portrait of access, use and attitudes towards financial services by rural residents, both farmers and micro entrepreneurs.
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April 29, 2012 - 6:08pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) ACCIÓN dio a conocer el jueves un reporte que proporciona valiosa información a la industria financiera para la creación o mejoramiento de servicios a residentes rurales de América Latina.El estudio de mercado fue hecho en Colombia, República Dominicana, Ecuador, Nicaragua y Perú. Propone un minucioso retrato del acceso, uso y actitudes hacia los servicios financieros por parte de campesinos y microempresarios de la región. Ofrece además una ...
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April 27, 2012 - 12:15pm
from Microfinance Africa
BOSTON, April 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Accion, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, today released a report providing the financial industry with important recommendations for creating and improving services to rural residents in Latin ...
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April 26, 2012 - 4:21pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
This morning, Accion released a report, “The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries.” The report, by Jacqueline Urquizo, provides the financial industry with new information relevant for improving financial services to rural residents in Latin ...
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April 19, 2012 - 3:42am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) La Red Centroamericana y del Caribe de Microfinanzas (Redcamif) y la Red Panameña de Microfinanzas (Redpamif) invitan a la VI Conferencia Centroamericana y del Caribe “Microfinanzas: Creciendo con Inclusión”.El evento tendrá lugar del 5 al 7 de septiembre de 2012 en el Hotel Riu Plaza Panamá.
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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 - 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 6, 2012 - 2:30pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Laura Galindo
The microfinance crisis in Nicaragua dragged many institutions through the mud. Some institutions made it out and some did not. Without exception though, all of them had some cleaning up to do.
FUNDESER, headquartered in Managua, is a microfinance institution which was deeply affected by the worldwide credit crisis and the internal No Pago Movement across Nicaragua. After ...
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April 3, 2012 - 12:26am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) En tiempos de globalización, parece casi superfluo preguntarse si alguna región pueda sustraerse a las pautas y tendencias marcadas por una industria.Sin embargo, más de una vez nos hemos preguntado en qué medida afectan las transformaciones que experimentan las microfinanzas a nivel global, en el escenario específico de América Latina.Por ...
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March 29, 2012 - 4:41pm
from Financial Access Initiative Blog
Regulators hope that expanding financial access will also provide greater stability to the overall financial system. This would occur as the market becomes larger and more diverse, and thus better able to withstand difficulties in any particular corner. The range of depositors would enlarge, as would the kinds of financial institutions in the market. Greater competition among providers would create pressure for quality competition. Regulators hope that expanding financial access will also ...
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March 21, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Girls are cool. Girls can save the world. Girls can – according to the colourful stickers produced by the Nike Foundation – pull off miracles: "lifting" economies, ending the spread of HIV, leading the revolution. Investing in girls, the UK's Department for International Development tells us, is a surefire way to "stop poverty before it ...
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March 20, 2012 - 1:13pm
from Kiva.org
This guest post is by author and journalist Bob Harris. This is the third of a series of posts celebrating Women’s History Month and the incredible ripple effect women can have on their families, communities and countries when they have access to the right resources.Want to see what power and hope look like in person? Jump in a car in León, Nicaragua, and ride into the countryside for about an hour.Soon, the paved ...
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March 19, 2012 - 11:43pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Su día empieza antes de las cinco de la mañana, cuando su casa se convierte en un gimnasio comunal para mujeres con sobrepeso; de ocho a seis de la tarde se desempeña...
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March 16, 2012 - 11:48am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
· A nice summary with pretty pictures on the VoxEU blog of the paper on selling female condoms in Zambia that Markus blogged about recently.
· Tim Taylor on the latest evidence from the U.S. on small firms and job ...
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March 15, 2012 - 4:06pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
In January we had the chance to visit Colombia and Nicaragua on one of our first Insight Trips of 2012. We could write pages and pages about the trip and all that happened, but sometimes, pictures just say things better than words. So here are a few pictures from the trip! We have more trips coming up this year. Check out our
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