Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Samoa:
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March 29, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
According to the Mobile Money Omnibus Survey conducted in the Republic of Fiji by Tebbutt Research, a market research agency in the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Financial Inclusion Program (PFIP), a UN-backed program that aims to provide financial services to low-income households, 80 percent of respondents prefer to handle cash rather than utilize mobile payments. The survey was intended to discover factors that prevent people from using mobile money services and to better understand ...
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December 5, 2011 - 3:48pm
from BRAC Blog
The following blog post was originally written by Tejal Desai, a Kiva Fellow finishing her fellowship with BRAC in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Beautiful Freetown sunset
As my Kiva fellowship winds down, I reflect on the memorable ...
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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 15, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The growing number of middle-income countries (MICs) and the related decline in the number of low-income countries (LICs) has been the subject of some discussion on these pages. A total of 26 countries ...
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May 19, 2011 - 10:24am
from Acumen Fund Blog
A team from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia, won first place in the NextBillion 2011 Case Writing Competition, sponsored by NextBillion partners The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Acumen Fund and Ashoka. The winning team of Carol Gee, MBA student, and ...
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