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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 ...
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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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March 26, 2012 - 5:59am
from MicroCapital
Participants in last week’s United Nations (UN) Global Human Development Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, have adopted an “Istanbul Declaration” that calls for unified action against global social inequities and environmental degradation at the UN “Rio + 20” Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Brazil in June 2012. The declaration stresses the importance of viewing sustainable development within the context of social, economic and environmental dimensions. It identifies the ...
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March 26, 2012 - 5:59am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
We all know that the Brics have emerged as major world players, with China leading the way, South Africa quite some way behind and Russia a strange anomaly as part of a former superpower. We also know their newfound importance is in part expressed in the rise of their foreign assistance ...
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March 12, 2012 - 4:41pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Beth Rhyne
As part of an effort to Map the Invisible Market, I’ve been looking at data from the World Bank [1] on population and financial inclusion, seeking to answer this question: how many of the world’s people are financially excluded, and where are they? It’s not hard to rough out a basic picture.
To start, let’s focus on people of working age, because data on their use of ...
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February 5, 2012 - 6:26am
from Google news - microfinance
MICROFINANCE EVENT: “Global Microfinance Forum 2012”, Istanbul, Turkey, April ...MicroCapitalThis conference brings together representatives of fund managers, microfinance institutions, ...
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February 5, 2012 - 6:25am
from MicroCapital
Event Name: Global Microfinance Forum 2012
Event Date: April 12 – April 13, 2012
Event Location: Istanbul, Turkey
See Our Comprehensive Event Calendar at: http://microfinanceassociation.ning.com/events
Cost: The fee to attend is EUR 990 plus 19 percent tax.
Summary of Event:
This conference brings together representatives of fund managers, microfinance institutions, development agencies and social investors to discuss topics such as assessing the ...
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January 23, 2012 - 7:30am
from MicroCapital
The Okan University in Istanbul, Turkey, has launched the Muhammad Yunus International Centre for Microfinance and Social Business, which aims to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development by “promoting, developing and implementing social business ideas and projects” [1]. The centre has been named after Dr Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, a nonprofit microcredit organization in Bangladesh. The centre reportedly will conduct research in social business and ...
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January 19, 2012 - 12:46am
from Kiva.org
It’s a new year, which means it’s time to look back and reflect on all that we have been able to accomplish together in the year that’s passed. It has been an extremely busy year of learning and growth, a year of many exciting firsts, meaningful milestones and inspiring numbers! Here are just some of the great things that we hope everyone will remember, and celebrate, about 2011...Exciting Firsts...We introduced
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January 3, 2012 - 1:37pm
from MicroCapital
Alternatifbank A.S. (ABank), a private commercial bank in Turkey, has entered into a loan agreement with German development finance institution Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft GmbH (DEG) and the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), a microfinance investment fund incorporated in Luxembourg, to receive EUR 30 million (USD 38.7 million) to boost credit availability for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Turkey [1]. Under the agreement, DEG will ...
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December 30, 2011 - 6:00pm
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, December 30, 2011: "Muhammad Yunus International Centre for Microfinance and Social Business" was recently inaugurated at the Okan University in Istanbul, Turkey. The Centre will provide an independent and open platform for addressing development challenges faced by poor people in Asia.
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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 20, 2011 - 3:14pm
from MicroCapital
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international financial institution headquartered in London, recently announced that it has committed EUR 400 million (USD 520 million) to increase financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the agribusiness sector in Turkey [1]. The funds will be made available under the “Turkey Agribusiness SME Financing Facility” (TurAFF) that offers Turkish banks a “comprehensive mechanism to address unmatched demand for ...
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December 19, 2011 - 3:16pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Center Staff
Book-writing is partly about voracious reading, Alex Counts reminds us on his blog, which chronicles the process of penning a book about Haitian microfinance pioneer Fonkoze.
Counts, the CEO of Grameen Foundation, most recently finished ...
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September 20, 2011 - 12:25pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
In an earlier series of posts, Alaka Holla and I talked about why we don’t know much about how to economically empower women, why it’s hard, and how to
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September 15, 2011 - 3:01pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
4pm final thoughts: We're wrapping up our coverage of the Commons debate now. Thanks for all your comments and tweets. We haven't been able to find out where Andrew Mitchell went when he left the chamber. DfID tweeted "that's it for us", at 1.51pm. We're not sure what time Harriet Harman ...
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August 26, 2011 - 1:44am
from Kiva.org
Raucous cheering emanated through Kiva HQ on Friday afternoon as the newest class of Kiva Fellows received their diplomas. Kiva Board Chair, Julie Hanna; Co-Founder and CEO, Matt Flannery; President, Premal Shah, and dozens of Kiva staff and volunteers were on hand to celebrate the completion of an intensive 5-day training program, which marks the beginning of a 4-month volunteer commitment for the 23 impressive individuals who make up the 16th class of Kiva Fellows (KF16). [top ...
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August 14, 2011 - 6:19pm
from Kiva.org
Please join me in welcoming Kiva’s newest field partner, Maya, our first field partner in Turkey! Maya was by its parent organization, the Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work, a Turkish NGO whose mission is to improve womens’ economic well-being and quality of life, in 2002 in the wake of the disastrous Marmara earthquake. Now an officially registered economic enterprise under the auspices of KEDV, Maya ...
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