Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Papua New Guinea:
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May 15, 2012 - 10:48am
from CGAP Technology Blog
Joep Roest is a Financial Inclusion Specialist with the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP). PFIP is a Pacific-wide programme helping to provide sustainable financial services to low income households. It is a joint project of the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and has received additional funding support from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the European ...
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May 14, 2012 - 1:19pm
from MicroCapital
National Insurance Timor-Leste (NITL), an insurance company in the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, has partnered with local microfinance institutions (MFIs) Tuba Rai Metin and Moris Rasik to introduce regulated microinsurance products in the country. NITL will underwrite the products, which will be distributed by Tuba Rai Metin and Moris Rasik to their clients. The first two products, “Credit Life Plus,” which was launched in April, and “Asuransi Protesaun ba Familia,” launched in ...
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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 2, 2012 - 10:51pm
from MicroCapital
Australian micropayment service provider Mobile Handset Initiated Transactions (mHITs) announced that it has partnered with micropayment service provider GCash to deploy an “international remittance corridor to the Philippines” that allows account holders in Australiato send funds to mobile wallet users in the Philippines [1]. Recipients do not need a bank account or transfer agent to use the service [1]. As MicroCapital reported in March 2012,
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March 29, 2012 - 10:47am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
By: Atty. John V. Owens, MABS Chief of Party
During my presentation, I shared with the audience some of the latest relevant updates and trends that we are seeing from around the world in terms of the uses of mobile money and mobile banking services.
Viral Marketing & Use of Social Networks
One interesting theme is the use of viral marketing to ...
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September 13, 2011 - 7:05pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The next post in a new blog series looking at the role public funders can play in branchless banking. We look forward to your comments in the coming weeks.
The Pacific has not been a hospitable place for traditional ...
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August 12, 2011 - 2:45pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has announced that two of the funds it manages, the IFC Capitalization Fund and the Africa Capitalization Fund, will invest a total of USD 10 million in equity in Malawian commercial bank NBS Bank (formerly the New Building Society).
NBS Bank, which is listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange, plans to deploy the funding to expand its capital base and enter new agricultural markets. ...
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June 20, 2011 - 11:43am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Studying abroad is becoming increasingly common in many countries – with almost 3 million students educated each year at the tertiary level in a country other than their own. For developing countries in particular, studying abroad offers many of the promises and fears of brain drain (both of which
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May 27, 2011 - 8:30am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Around the world, more aid workers are being killed, kidnapped or attacked than ever before.In April, seven UN staff were murdered in northern Afghanistan when their compound was stormed by an angry crowd. The attack was part of the
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March 11, 2011 - 8:57pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
By Chris Marcoux, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow at the College of William and MaryU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke “straight realpolitik” at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week, urging the committee to “put aside the humanitarian, do-good side of what we believe in” and recognize that the United States is “in ...
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