Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Thailand:
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May 24, 2012 - 2:40pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
Homogeneity is out; diversity is in. Moving clients to the center of the microfinance discourse is producing new data on who they are and how they use (or could use) financial services.
Financial inclusion means much more than simply having or not having a bank account: it goes beyond the mere availability of services to their adoption and usage. The recently published
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May 12, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries;” by Jacqueline Urquizo; published by Accion; March 2012; 45 pages; available at:
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May 10, 2012 - 11:16am
from Google news - microfinance
MIT NewsTaking credit: When Thailand`s government started offering microfinance loans ...
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May 10, 2012 - 4:04am
from Google news - microfinance
MIT NewsTaking creditMIT NewsWhen Thailand's government started offering microfinance loans to villagers, did ...
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May 3, 2012 - 4:01am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
Philippine Daily Inquirer – The Philippines is considered one of the laggards in the Asia-Pacific region in the area of financial services reach, ranking only 12th out of 15 countries in terms of the proportion of working-age population who have accounts with banks or other financial institutions.
Results of a regional survey, done recently by various institutions including the US Agency for International Development, showed that only 26.56 percent of Filipinos ...
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May 2, 2012 - 12:43pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Seetalavajit Sabayjai, The Nation
The Bank of Thailand is attempting to encourage loan sharks to take part in the country’s official ...
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April 27, 2012 - 9:38pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Rupert Scofield, the co-founder, president, and CEO of FINCA, just reviewed my blog-linked book on his book-linked blog. He doesn’t find my analysis very persuasive. Inevitably, the reaction is mutual.
He says that I “[set] the ...
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April 27, 2012 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
“Designing Disclosure Regimes for Responsible Financial Inclusion,” by Jennifer Chien; published by CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor); March 2012; 23 pages; available at:
http://www.cgap.org/gm/document-1.9.57109/FN_78.pdf
This publication discusses the importance of client comprehension of products as part of ...
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April 25, 2012 - 12:58pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
What percentage of women in South Asia have a formal account compared to those in Latin America? What are the most common self-reported barriers to financial inclusion among women and rural residents worldwide? To what degree has mobile money reached the unbanked in Sub-Saharan Africa?
For the first time, we have hard data to ...
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April 25, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
By the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico and Celina Lee, published by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion, February 2012, 19 pages, available at: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.1.14613
This paper compares how four Latin American countries implement agent banking, a ...
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April 24, 2012 - 3:31pm
from Kiva.org
Viet Nam is best represented by its contrasting environment, the mountainous north and the southern coastal lowlands; the months of torrential rain and the hot sunny season; the rural agrarian economy and the frenzied industrial cities. But Viet Nam, roughly the size of New Mexico, is united by its optimism. The s-shaped country borders China, Laos and ...
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April 19, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Businesses are interested in Burma because the country is rich in natural resources and has a vast pool of young people eager to work and to consume. They have been restrained because
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April 18, 2012 - 12:42am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Philippines: “Insurer reports high take-up of microinsurance products”
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April 12, 2012 - 12:58pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Delhi, India. A 13-year-old girl employed as a domestic worker by a couple who are doctors is locked up in their house while her employers are on holiday in Thailand. Neighbours hear her frantic screams for help. Her story then makes ...
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April 3, 2012 - 12:33pm
from Microfinance Africa
MOMBASA, Kenya (MarketWatch) ...
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April 3, 2012 - 12:32pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
MOMBASA, Kenya (MarketWatch) — Agnes Ngooro, a small trader in the bustling central market of Mombasa, spends her days sitting behind a wooden table selling trousers for a few dollars a piece, and while it may not look like it at first glance, she is an international businesswoman.
The clothes displayed on her table are manufactured in China and Thailand, and they arrive in East Africa in the region’s major cities including Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, ...
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March 28, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Milford Bateman is perhaps best known for his strident attacks on microfinance as an anti-poverty strategy, including his sometimes acrimonious
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March 27, 2012 - 1:03pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The strict hierarchy of Thai society means the drive for inclusive education needs strong commitment from both politicians and school leaders. In the past decade, there has been significant political progress in moves to implement a system that ensures children with disabilities have access to mainstream schools. However, with cultural ...
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March 22, 2012 - 12:52pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
PRNewswire via COMTEX
New Study Reveals Wide Variance in Results from Thai Million Baht Village Fund
Large-scale microfinance programs are widely used as a tool to fight poverty in developing countries, but a recent study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty suggests that they can have varying results for participants and may be the most cost-effective use of funds only in limited situations.
The Thai Million Baht ...
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March 13, 2012 - 5:23pm
from MicroCapital
The governors of the central banks of Kenya and Tanzania recently called for policy and regulatory efforts to encourage the use of mobile financial services (MFS) throughout Africa.
The announcement was made at the conclusion of the Mobile Financial Services conference held in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is part of a larger initiative launched at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Global Policy Forum in Mexico in 2011 known as the Africa Mobile Financial Services Policy ...
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