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Microfinance in Sudan:

May 24, 2012 - 12:07pm from Microfinance Nigeria
El-Fasher, Khartoum – The periodical meeting of the Microfinance Council of North Darfur State headed by Osman Mohammed Yousif Kibir the governor of the state who acts as the chairman of the council in the presence of minister of finance, economy and civil service who acts as the deputy chairman issued a number of directives aiming at pushing work in the field of microfinance to carry out more programmes in the domains of providing financial and non-financial services. The ...
May 24, 2012 - 12:04pm from Microfinance Africa
El-Fasher, Khartoum – The periodical meeting of the Microfinance Council of North Darfur State headed by Osman Mohammed Yousif Kibir the governor of the state who acts as the chairman of the council in the presence of minister of finance, economy and civil service who acts as the deputy chairman issued a ...
May 23, 2012 - 7:41pm from Google news - microfinance
Sudan VisionMicrofinance Council in North Darfur Issues DirectivesSudan VisionEl-Fasher, Khartoum - The ...
May 19, 2012 - 11:05pm from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Omot Ochan was sitting in a remnant of forest on an old waterbuck skin and eating maize from a calabash gourd. He was lean and tall, wearing only a pair of combat pants. Behind him was a straw hut, where bare-breasted women and barefoot children cooked fish on an open fire. A ...
May 17, 2012 - 5:09pm from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Sudanese Government to Form Microfinance Council for The ...MicroCapitalGovernor Yahia Mohammed Kheir of Sudan's Blue Nile state, reportedly has announced plans for the local government to form a ...
May 17, 2012 - 5:02pm from MicroCapital
Governor Yahia Mohammed Kheir of Sudan’s Blue Nile state, reportedly has announced plans for the local government to form a high council on microfinance. The local government expects the Bank of Sudan, the central banking authority of Sudan, to help expand microfinance inBlue Nileby disbursing loans and farm supplies. The federal government, which has allocated SDG 2 billion (USD 747 million) for microfinance projects throughout the country also announced its support for the microfinance ...
May 16, 2012 - 5:52pm from BRAC Blog
This post was written by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown after his visit to BRAC's education programme in South Sudan and originally posted on the Gordon & Sarah Brown blog. Celina stands at the door of her hut hugging her one year old daughter ...
May 16, 2012 - 2:49pm from Microfinance Nigeria
The government of Blue Nile issued a decision forming the high council of Microfinance in the state. The decision was supported by the federal government by allocating 2 billion pounds for Microfinance. The Governor of Blue Nile during the inauguration of Bank of Sudan branch in Damazin said that they have become more assured that the process of development will be launched in the state to alleviate poverty with the opening of central bank of Sudan, pointing out to the announcement made ...
May 16, 2012 - 2:47pm from Microfinance Africa
The government of Blue Nile issued a decision forming the high council of Microfinance in the state. The decision was supported by the federal government by allocating 2 billion pounds for microfinance. The Governor of Blue Nile during the inauguration of Bank of Sudan branch in Damazin said that ...
May 16, 2012 - 1:17am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
South Africa: "A NEW agency aimed at funding small businesses has committed itself to doing things differently from traditional banks"
May 16, 2012 - 1:08am from Google news - microfinance
Decision to Form a High Council for Microfinance in Blue Nile StateSudan VisionThe government of Blue Nile issued a decision forming the high council of Microfinance in the state. The decision was supported by the federal government by allocating 2 billion pounds for ...
May 15, 2012 - 12:43pm from Microfinance Nigeria
Khartoum: Khartoum State workshop organized to prepare Microfinance strategy has called for formulating a strategy consistent with the national strategy. The speakers at the yesterday’s workshop, organized by the Ministry of Guidance and Social Development, stressed on the necessity of mapping the productive projects in the state and applying clear models that play an important role in realizing an economic development, in addition to presenting obvious solutions for collateral, ...
May 15, 2012 - 12:41pm from Microfinance Africa
Khartoum: Khartoum State workshop organized to prepare Microfinance strategy has called for formulating a strategy consistent with the national strategy. The speakers at the yesterday’s workshop, organized by the Ministry of Guidance and Social Development, stressed on the necessity of mapping the ...
May 13, 2012 - 9:23pm from Google news - microfinance
Workshop to Prepare Microfinance Strategy OrganizedSudan VisionKhartoum: Khartoum State workshop organized to prepare Microfinance strategy has called for formulating a strategy consistent with the national strategy. The speakers at the yesterday's workshop, organized by the ...
May 11, 2012 - 12:44pm from BRAC Blog
The following is an excerpt from and article by Josh Kwan published in the Spring 2012 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. First, the good news. More children in places of poverty are attending school than ever before.2 Thanks to a major push by governments and donors, many countries ...
May 9, 2012 - 1:46pm from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Co-authors and I are soon to complete (fingers crossed) some new work on climatic shocks and neo-natal mortality. But our findings are not the topic of this post. Rather I want to discuss the necessary behind-the-scenes data construction work that had to take place before the first regression could be estimated. The work involved the aggregation of fifty plus national level microdata sets (from Demographic and Health Surveys) and then a merger with geo-coded historical weather data (from ...
May 8, 2012 - 1:10pm from BRAC Blog
The following was originally posted by BRAC USA President and CEO Susan Davis on the World Education blog.With the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 on our ...
May 8, 2012 - 9:12am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The decision of the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) to suspend investment in teacher training in South Sudan risks undermining one of the key measures that could alleviate the situation for women in a ...
May 4, 2012 - 9:39pm from Google news - microfinance
Sudan VisionMinister of Finance in North Darfur Affirms the Significance of Microfinance ...Sudan ...
April 27, 2012 - 11:34am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
A long queue of cars and motorbikes snakes from the dusty forecourt of a petrol station into the main road, hampering traffic on a sweltering afternoon. Over the past fortnight the queues have become increasingly common in Juba, South Sudan's capital, as a shutdown of oil production – caused by an oil-fee dispute with Sudan – begins to ...

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