Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Togo:
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May 4, 2012 - 3:47pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-investment arm of the World Bank Group, has partnered with the eight countries of the West African Monetary Union (UEMOA in French) to increase access to finance for the region’s small-scale businesses. IFC is developing private credit bureaus and sharing information with UEMOA in an effort to improve awareness of credit in the region, lower operations costs and improve risk mitigation. No timeframe for the project was ...
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April 20, 2012 - 8:03pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/518
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 110
April 20, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 15 million to the
Government of the Republic of Togo
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an ...
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April 12, 2012 - 7:52pm
from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
RBI/2011-12/495
A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 106
April 12, 2012
To
All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks
Madam / Sir,
Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 150 million
to the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated July 21, ...
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April 2, 2012 - 4:45pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It's a truism in rich countries that money doesn't buy happiness - but many people still look for it in stores. And there is an assumption that happiness ...
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March 23, 2012 - 12:22pm
from GiveWell Blog
Highlights from our update of AMF follow. For those who want more information, please see our full AMF update.
Background
Historically, AMF had distributed bednets in the following way: on-the-ground organizations applied to AMF for nets; after AMF reviewed and approved proposals, it would ship nets to the charity; finally, AMF would check in to see whether the nets had been ...
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March 22, 2012 - 3:22pm
from Kiva.org
This is the first of a three part series taking a closer look at Benin, its history with microfinance, Kiva's role in expanding opportunities for Beninese households, and what it's like to participate in the country's economy as a borrower, lender and field worker. We hope you enjoy.
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March 9, 2012 - 7:30pm
from Microfinance a Working Solution to Global Poverty
As we close out the week, I’m reflecting on some of the articles published in honor of yesterday’s International Women’s Day. Here are just a few of the provocative, interesting, inspiring and even maddening(!) ones I encourage you to read or re-read, in no particular order…
“What if Mark ...
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January 28, 2012 - 3:27pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
On January 27, 2012 MFTransparency will unveil the microloan pricing data collected as part of the Transparent Pricing Initiatives in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. Concluding months of research and analysis, MFTransparency will present transparent prices for microloans offered in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania, information never before available.
Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania are the fourth, fifth and sixth countries in the
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January 28, 2012 - 3:23pm
from Microfinance Africa
On January 27, 2012 MFTransparency will unveil the microloan pricing data collected as part of the Transparent Pricing Initiatives in Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. Concluding months of research and analysis, MFTransparency will present transparent prices for ...
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December 27, 2011 - 2:31pm
from MFTransparency.org: Blog
by Melina Djre
During the past few months, we, at ...
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September 15, 2011 - 10:38am
from MFW4A - Newsfeed
A conference on Islamic finance was held in Lomé on September 12th and 14th - a first in Togo.Organised by the African institute of Islamic finance (IAFI), its aim was to inform people of Islamic finance principles, Islamic case law, management of Islamic banks, contracts and financial products and Islamic bond financial markets, Le Griot newspaper reports.The conference shows the expansion of this type of finance in Africa, after the first Islamic ...
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September 14, 2011 - 2:00pm
from MFW4A - Newsfeed
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated and mobile operator Bharti Airtel have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the launch of new mobile banking services in Africa.According to the MoU, these products will be focused on serving the unbanked and underbanked population and will be available within the 14 countries in which Ecobank and Airtel jointly operate.These are Burkina Faso, Congo, RDC, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, ...
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September 9, 2011 - 10:38am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
All is not well at Makerere University in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Once called the Harvard of Africa, Makerere was closed last week after academic and administrative staff downed their tools, the climax of a row over pensions and pay.It is the second time in four years that the ...
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September 8, 2011 - 3:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Kenya has become the latest African country to ban female genital mutilation, with the passing of a law making it illegal to practice or procure it or take somebody abroad for cutting. The law even prohibits derogatory remarks about women who have not undergone FGM. Offenders may be jailed or fined or ...
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August 26, 2011 - 7:07am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
The Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines–Microenterprise Access to Banking Services Program (RBAP-MABS) in cooperation with Globe’s G-Xchange Inc. (GXI) conducted a regional GCASH accreditation training and refresher course on August 25, 2011 at the RBAP Conference Room in Intramuros, Manila. Thirty-three (33) participants from eighteen (18) rural banks from Luzon completed the course.
The training introduced the participants to the basic concepts and applications of mobile ...
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July 21, 2011 - 8:26am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
Le Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), en partenariat avec le gouvernement espagnol, a lancé le Fonds de renforcement des capacités de la microfinance en Afrique. Son objectif est d’accroître les efforts pour renforcer les capacités du secteur financier aux bénéfices des pauvres et des populations à faible revenu du continent, particulièrement auprès de ...
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July 20, 2011 - 10:07pm
from Kiva.org
At Kiva, we value being in tune with the current news, research, and findings, so each week we are going to bring you the latest updates in Microfinance!
In this post, we cover the following: an CGAP blog post about Islamic microfinance, a Newswire report about the World Bank’s reclassification of 28 countries, the fishing industry in West Africa, the role of microfinance in climate change, and much much more!
If you can only read one:
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July 20, 2011 - 8:40am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
African Development Bank Group in collaboration with Government of Spain established the Microfinance Capacity Building Fund (MCBF) for scaling up capacity building efforts of the financial sector in rural Africa. The fund is inviting applications for innovative projects that increase transparency within the Microfinance Sector.The Fund will specifically focus on ...
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July 6, 2011 - 10:00am
from CGAP Technology Blog
We’ve been profiling the state of play of the branchless banking industry in various countries over the last few weeks. Today we look at a region of the world that is in many ways in a class by itself. The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), or UEMOA in French, is a customs and monetary union of the republics of Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo. The
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June 20, 2011 - 7:13pm
from MFTransparency.org: Blog
LANCASTER, PA USA & LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, June 20, 2011 –MFTransparency has successfully launched the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Zambia, the sixth country in the MasterCard Foundation-funded
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