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May 25, 2012 - 4:00pm
from MicroCapital
ResponsAbility Social Investments, a Swiss microfinance investment manager, has reached six investment deals with three microfinance institutions (MFIs)in Africa. Two loans each were disbursed to Kenyan Women Finance Trust (KWFT), a Kenyan MFI; MicroCred Ivory Coast, an MFI affiliated with MicroCred Group of France; and Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises Limited (PRIDE), an MFI based in Tanzania.
ResponsAbility SICAV Mikrofinanz-Fonds (rAMF), a microfinance ...
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May 25, 2012 - 12:53pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
This year's G8 saw a significant change in the summit's approach – it was a low-key meeting hosted at President Barack Obama's Camp David retreat. Emphasis was on informal bilateral time for leaders to discuss issues of the day such as the global economy, the eurozone and political and ...
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May 25, 2012 - 7:57am
from MicroCapital
The World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI), a Switzerland-based association representing savings and retail banks with EUR 4.3 trillion (USD 5.4 trillion) in assets, announced a new plan at the 23rd WSBI Congress in Marrakech, Morocco, whereby its members will review their products, tailoring some to the specific needs of the most vulnerable potential customers.
For example, WSBI member may use technology services to reach unserved and isolated groups. WSBI members will also ...
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May 24, 2012 - 9:01pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
Last Friday, agricultural finance took center stage at the
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May 24, 2012 - 4:21pm
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
The 2011 Global Mobile Money: service in which the mobile phone is used to access financial services. '>mobile money Adoption Survey allowed us to identify 8 fast-growing mobile money services that are following the path of M-PESA in Kenya. Six of these 8 services are in East Africa, and after Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, the mobile money wave is now reaching Rwanda.
In this blog post, we feature MTN MobileMoney in Rwanda, one ...
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May 23, 2012 - 1:41am
from Google news - microfinance
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: National Microfinance Bank (NMB) of Tanzania to Promote ...MicroCapitalThe National Microfinance Bank (NMB), a microfinance institution (MFI) backed by the government of Tanzania, ...
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May 23, 2012 - 1:37am
from MicroCapital
The National Microfinance Bank (NMB), a microfinance institution (MFI) backed by the government of Tanzania, reportedly has launched the Financial Fitness Program (FFP) “that is aimed at promoting the culture of saving for the purpose of financing education.” NMB plans to offer financial literacy training to school children and small businesses. NMB also intends to distribute 50,000 financial fitness comic books on financial literacy to primary and secondary school students. No timetable ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:15pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
WASHINGTON, FRANKFURT, Germany and ATLANTA, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Investment in Musoni Kenya will Expand Access to Financial Services
Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund announced they have each purchased a 25 percent stake in Musoni Kenya, the first microfinance institution to provide financial services to the poor entirely via mobile phones. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it provides microloans largely to people who are underserved by the formal ...
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May 22, 2012 - 12:11pm
from Microfinance Africa
WASHINGTON, FRANKFURT, Germany and ATLANTA, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Investment in Musoni Kenya will Expand Access to Financial Services
Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund announced they have each ...
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May 21, 2012 - 6:59am
from Mobile Money Africa
BY XINHUA A senior official at the Tanzania’s central bank, the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) has called for expansion of mobile financial services with a focus on delivery of credit, basic savings and insurance services, local media reported on Thursday. Ms Natu Mwamba, BOT deputy governor for economic and financial policies, was quoted by the
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May 21, 2012 - 3:25am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
India: "MFIs find relief in loan securitisation"
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May 16, 2012 - 12:47am
from Kiva.org
Join us in welcoming our new Field Partner Barefoot Power -- a company dedicated to bringing solar light and electricity to the regions in Tanzinia that need it most.Worldwide, 1.6 billion people live without electricity. Instead, they depend on kerosene lamps or candles, ...
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May 15, 2012 - 1:08pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
George Mungai is an unlikely TV star. The softly spoken farmer and father of six lives in a tidy compound of houses, all wood and corrugated iron, among the cool, misty hills outside Nairobi. But thanks to Shamba Shape-Up, a reality show that does for Kenyan farms what Extreme ...
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May 15, 2012 - 9:37am
from Mobile Money Africa
The habari TANZANIA’s leading mobile phone company, Vodacom has presented a cash prize of TShs 10 million to the winner of the ongoing MPESA promotion which targets users of the service during a brief ceremony at the company Headquarters at Mlimani City in Dar es Salaam. Dennis Kaesha, an accountant from Geita was all smiles
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May 12, 2012 - 11:04pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It is tempting to wonder how much of an appetite Barack Obama will have for dinner on Thursday evening. That afternoon, ahead of the two-day meeting of the G8 at Camp David, which kicks off on Friday, he will announce what is currently being called "the new alliance to increase food security and nutrition".It's an initiative by members of the G8 ...
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May 11, 2012 - 12:21pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
All this week, May 7-11, Opportunity supporters around the country, including members of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) and Board of Governors, and our own staff took part in the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line ...
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May 10, 2012 - 10:21pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
This post was co-authored with Espen Beer Prydz. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this post are entirely ours. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations.
The Lancet recently published a paper by Pronyk et al. [
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May 10, 2012 - 1:15pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Afro-optimism versus Afro-pessimism is a misplaced debate. Africa has changed. The Nairobi of my childhood and the Dar es Salaam where I began my professional career have both changed dramatically. This is evident in the real-estate booms and lengthening traffic jams. Million-dollar deals used to raise eyebrows, but now billion-dollar deals are ...
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May 10, 2012 - 10:18am
from Google news - microfinance
Microfinance Institutions Urged to Uphold TransparencyAllAfrica.comMEMBERS of Tanzania Institute of Microfinance Institutions (TAMFI) have been urged to do business transparently as a way to boost their revenues and image. Addressing TAMFI members in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Lead Africa ...
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May 10, 2012 - 6:47am
from Google news - microfinance
Daily NewsMicrofinance institutions urged to uphold ...
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