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May 9, 2012 - 3:11pm
from MicroCapital
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 2012, HSBC staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be deployed to provide technical assistance to ...
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April 25, 2012 - 1:42pm
from MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Limited, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, reportedly has provided a loan of USD 1.5 million to the Jordan Micro Credit Company (Tamweelcom), a Jordan-based microfinance institution (MFI). The investment is expected to fund loans to approximately 4,000 micro-entrepreneurs inJordanover an unspecified timeframe. Grameen-Jameel made its first loan to Tamweelcom in 2008 in the amount of USD ...
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April 18, 2012 - 4:13pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Sudan burns – and the world yawns. Clashes along the north-south border multiply and spread, presaging all-out war – and the UN talks vaguely of new sanctions. Khartoum's parliament brands newly independent South Sudan
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April 14, 2012 - 9:26am
from Microfinance Nigeria
From Zawya
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in collaboration with USAID and CGAP jointly organized “Iraq Microfinance Policy Forum” on April 10 & 11, 2012 in Erbil-Iraq, for setting up Policy Goals for Microfinance in Iraq, which was participated by high Government functionaries from Iraq Government, ...
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April 14, 2012 - 9:22am
from Microfinance Africa
From Zawya
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in collaboration with USAID and CGAP jointly ...
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March 28, 2012 - 8:21pm
from Microfinance Africa
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March 22, 2012 - 1:59pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
There has been a girls' school at Irbid refugee camp in northern Jordan since 1952. No one could tell me how many girls attended the school at that time, but now it operates a shift system to cope with demand. About 850 girls attend the imaginatively-titled Irbid camp girls' school number 1 five days a week, meeting for classes between 7am and 11.30am. ...
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March 8, 2012 - 11:41am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Women's rights have come a long way since the first International Women's Day in 1900. Early campaigners would be proud of the transformative role they played in securing votes for women, opening up access to male-only professions, and ...
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February 2, 2012 - 2:00pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
For the Arab World, 2011 was historic. The Arab Spring, ignited in Tunisia, quickly spread to Egypt, Libya, Syria and other Arab countries. The year brought much hope and a sense of opportunity as Arabs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf saw the possibility of a future without dictatorship, corruption and hypocrisy – the reasons ...
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January 10, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The British foreign minister's recent visit to Burma demonstrates the kind of positive role western power continues to play in the world on human rights and democracy when other strategic factors do not interfere. The Burma Action Campaign, which has ...
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January 5, 2012 - 9:07pm
from MicroCapital
SANAD Fund for MSME, a Luxembourg-based investment fund, has invested in Lebanon for the first time with a USD 5 million loan to BLC Bank sal, a Lebanese commercial bank. The loan will allow BLC to expand its lending to small and medium-sized enterprises.
SANAD Fund for MSME (SANAD) provides medium- and long-term debt and equity financing to commercial banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other financial institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the intent ...
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December 29, 2011 - 9:05am
from MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, recently announced in its first “partners’ meeting” that it has reached 1.5 million clients through its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) [1]. Grameen-Jameel, which deems itself a “social business,” supports MFIs by providing loans for early-stage MFIs and guarantees for MFIs seeking to access local-currency commercial loans. As of November 2010, Grameen-Jameel ...
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December 20, 2011 - 6:04pm
from Creating a World Without Poverty
Alex Counts is president, CEO and founder of Grameen Foundation, and author of several books, including Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World.
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the historic city of Istanbul for the first time, on the occasion of the ...
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December 19, 2011 - 4:00pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
As spring turned to summer and now winter, the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa continue. At first the euphoria was widespread as Arabs across the region began to see a future for the first time without dictatorship, corruption, and hypocrisy. Nearly one year after Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation on December 17 in Tunisia, the ...
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December 19, 2011 - 1:45pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
What you make of 2011 depends on your vantage point. The year's events look completely different depending on whether you are sitting at the bottom or the top, in the old north or the old south.From the bottom, this was a year of protest and revolution, toppling tyrants and throwing up new governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya ...
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December 16, 2011 - 5:48pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This year's EU DevDays event, organised by the European Commission and Poland, current holder of the revolving EU presidency, reflects both the recent history and aspirations of the host nation and the way the Arab spring has coloured 2011.Andris Piebalgs, European commissioner for development, said ...
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September 23, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
What is the most important issue at the UN general assembly in New York this week? Palestinian statehood? Sanctions against Syria? Maybe. But just as important are the discussions that could result in commitments to help prevent 7.6 million children dying every year.Pledges to the
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September 6, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
When Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni visited Rwanda in July, travelling journalists were so impressed with the country's progress that one of them suggested that concepts like democratic freedoms may, after all, not matter much to impoverished populations. What use, he asked, is freedom to patients stranded at a hospital that has no ...
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September 5, 2011 - 8:34pm
from Kiva.org
This month’s Passport Series focuses on Lebanon! Lebanon is a country with stunning mountain scenery, a beautiful Mediterranean climate, and a highly diverse population. Follow us throughout the month of September as we learn about Lebanon’s background, its microfinance sector, and Kiva’s presence within its borders. History Lebanon is a Middle Eastern nation that sits on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its bustling capital, Beirut, is ...
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July 15, 2011 - 12:29pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
From CPI Financial
Grameen-Jameel, the first social business in the Middle East, and the Al-Karama microcredit to promote Moroccan microenterprises, signed a loan agreement of $500,000, payable over three years.
The signing took place in Casablanca in the presence of Julia Assaad, General Manager of Grameen-Jameel and Mr. Abdelmajid El Gasmi,President of Al-Karama microcredit. The loan agreement, the culmination of six years of technical and financial ...
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