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May 23, 2012 - 3:48pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Mujeres y Microfinanzas en Extremadura. La Fundación Mujeres celebra este jueves 24 de mayo en la ciudad de Cáceres, comunidad autónoma de Extremadura, el llamado “IV Encuentro de Emprendedoras y Empresarias. Mujeres y Microfinanzas: Instrumentos para la promoción del empoderamiento económico y la igualdad de oportunidades”.Según informa el portal ...
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May 10, 2012 - 9:57pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Socios por un Día 2012 Más de mil estudiantes y un número similar de profesionales de todo Paraguay fueron “Socios por un Día” este miércoles durante una jornada vocacional convocada por Junior Achievement, programa de Educación Emprendedora de Fundación Paraguaya. La iniciativa abarcó este año veintidós ciudades e ...
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May 9, 2012 - 4:07am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Cerca de mil estudiantes y profesionales serán protagonistas de la jornada vocacional Socios por un Día 2012 previsto para este miércoles 9 de mayo en distintas ciudades de Paraguay.El evento es una iniciativa educativa de Junior Achievement, un emprendimiento de la Fundación Paraguaya, que tiene por objetivo poner a estudiantes de tercer año del ciclo medio en contacto con el mundo del trabajo a través de una experiencia práctica de un día, para que de esta forma ...
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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 2, 2012 - 4:53pm
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
La Fundación Paraguaya, con el apoyo del Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (Fomin) lanzará el viernes 27 de mayo el programa “Microfranquicias” con el objetivo de implementar...
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April 30, 2012 - 11:16am
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
El Gobierno paraguayo pretende impulsar el desarrollo económico con inclusión financiera, entendiendo que la inclusión financiera implica no solamente que los individuos...
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April 24, 2012 - 10:44pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
Recent successes in linking lower income clients to the formal banking system via ...
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April 23, 2012 - 2:30pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
The Smart Campaign recently released the following press release to announce fourteen microfinance organizations with outstanding Codes of Ethics.
Washington, DC, April 18, 2012 — The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate ...
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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 11, 2012 - 3:12pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
Nuevamente Coca Cola y Junior Achievement anuncian el inicio del programa educativo ambiental Aprender a Emprender en el Medio Ambiente (AEMA), donde niños y niñas del quinto grado de 40 escuelas públicas paraguayas, mediante sesiones de aprendizaje teórico-práctico, aprenderán y debatirán temas como el agua, la basura, los actores ...
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March 23, 2012 - 12:57am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Cerca de 100 personas de diversas organizaciones de la sociedad civil participaron este jueves en Asunción de la tercera edición del NGO Connection Day donde se discutió sobre oportunidades de mejoras a partir del uso de tecnología y trabajo en red.El encuentro, que este año llevó como lema “Construyendo redes para avanzar”, es un ...
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March 21, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
Fitch, a rating agency with headquarters in London and New York, reportedly has affirmed the rating of Peruvian nonprofit holding company Grupo ACP Inversiones y Desarrollo (Grupo ACP) at BB-, indicating an elevated vulnerability to default risk [1] [2]. It also improved the firm’s outlook from stable to positive due to “the company’s sustained performance, sound growth prospects for its core subsidiaries, and the expected stabilization of Grupo ACP ACP’s leverage underpinned by higher ...
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March 20, 2012 - 4:28pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Brian A. Clancy, Chair, CFI Advisory Council
It’s impossible to know in advance if a trip will really move us – that is disrupt our expectations and breach our emotional defenses. Some trips with great promise are barely recalled a month later, while others with modest goals can change the way we see the world. In many cases the difference comes down to a single moment – a deep experience of authenticity that’s somehow both highly specific and universal. But ...
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March 17, 2012 - 12:42am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) entregó este viernes en Montevideo sus premios beyondBanking, que reconocen las contribuciones sobresalientes de intermediarios financieros a la banca sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe. Los ganadores recibieron sus premios en el Auditorio Nacional del SODRE, en el marco de la reunión anual del ...
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March 13, 2012 - 8:12pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
El jueves pasado, en el marco del Día Internacional de la Mujer, unas 50 emprendedoras cerraron el segundo ciclo de educación financiera con una colorida feria de artesanías y otros interesantes productos en la plaza Infante Rivarola de Villa Morra, en Asunción.Se trata de emprendedoras de la zona Metropolitana, Villa Elisa, San Lorenzo, Luque, Capiatá, Limpio, ...
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March 1, 2012 - 5:32am
from MicroCapital
Omidyar Network, a US-based social investment firm, and ACCION International, a US-based nonprofit that supports microfinance institutions (MFIs), have invested USD 3.2 million in equity in Mobile Transactions International, a Zambia-based mobile financial services company, to expand financial access to poor and underserved populations. Mobile Transactions International will use the money to develop its leadership team, agent network and technology platform. Arjuna Costa, director of ...
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February 24, 2012 - 2:00pm
from Kiva.org
We value being in tune with the latest news and research about microfinance and poverty alleviation. Kiva Scholar is designed to share news and developments in the field and open the conversation up to you!This week, we're focusing on an article ...
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February 24, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This week, while Eurozone finance ministers were agreeing their latest plan to not deal with the European debt crisis, they should have been listening to stories from across the Atlantic. The Institute for the Study of the ...
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January 17, 2012 - 9:10pm
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, January 18, 2012: The Dutch development bank, FMO and Vision Banco, one of the largest microfinance institution in Paraguay, have signed a loan agreement of USD 10 million to finance micro and small enterprises. Half of the loan amount is provided in local currency of Paraguay.
Vision Banco focuses on providing a full scale of services to micro and small enterprises. It is proactively increasing the access to finance for micro and small ...
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January 16, 2012 - 4:16pm
from MicroCapital
The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO in Dutch), a public-private partnership, has signed an agreement to loan the equivalent of USD 10 million to Vision Banco, a microfinance institution (MFI) in Paraguay [1]. The four-year loan will be used to finance micro- and small enterprises in Paraguay. Half of the USD 10 million will be provided in local currency, and half will be provided in USD.
As of September 2011, Vision Banco reported USD 652 million in total assets, a ...
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