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Microfinance in Uzbekistan:

May 16, 2013 - 9:33am from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It has taken a tragedy on the scale of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh to finally strip away any remaining illusions that cheap clothes don't come with a serious human rights price-tag somewhere down the line.Reports on Thursday of the
March 26, 2013 - 8:35pm from MicroCapital
The Al-Huda Centre for Islamic Banking and Economics (CIBE), a Pakistan-based nonprofit that focuses on Islamic microfinance, has announced its expansion to Uganda. The firm offers research, training and technical assistance services. According to Al-Huda CIBE CEO Zubair Mughal, the new Ugandan initiative represents the organization’s first operation in Africa, and the company plans to expand to South Africa and other African countries with high Muslim populations in the future. Details ...
March 12, 2013 - 12:00pm from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
To All Authorised Persons, who are Indian Agents under Money Transfer Service Scheme Madam / Sir, Money Transfer Service Scheme – Revised Guidelines Attention of all Authorised Persons (APs), who are Indian Agents under the Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) is invited to the ...
March 12, 2013 - 11:22am from RemittancesGateway
Forget gas and coal and cotton. Labor migrants are Uzbekistan's number-one export. And new data show their earnings jumped in 2012. Russia's Central Bank says migrant labor remittances sent from Russia to Uzbekistan totaled $5.7 billion in 2012, up 32.6 percent over 2011, when the figure was $4.3 billion. With Uzbekistan's 2012 GDP worth $35 billion (that's the official sum figure converted ...
March 12, 2013 - 11:22am from RemittancesGateway
Forget gas and coal and cotton. Labor migrants are Uzbekistan's number-one export. And new data show their earnings jumped in 2012. Russia's Central Bank says migrant labor remittances sent from Russia to Uzbekistan totaled $5.7 billion in 2012, up 32.6 percent over 2011, when the figure was $4.3 billion. With Uzbekistan's 2012 GDP worth $35 billion (that's the official sum figure converted ...
March 12, 2013 - 11:22am from RemittancesGateway
Forget gas and coal and cotton. Labor migrants are Uzbekistan's number-one export. And new data show their earnings jumped in 2012. Russia's Central Bank says migrant labor remittances sent from Russia to Uzbekistan totaled $5.7 billion in 2012, up 32.6 percent over 2011, when the figure was $4.3 billion. With Uzbekistan's 2012 GDP worth $35 billion (that's the official sum figure converted ...
March 12, 2013 - 11:22am from RemittancesGateway
Forget gas and coal and cotton. Labor migrants are Uzbekistan's number-one export. And new data show their earnings jumped in 2012. Russia's Central Bank says migrant labor remittances sent from Russia to Uzbekistan totaled $5.7 billion in 2012, up 32.6 percent over 2011, when the figure was $4.3 billion. With Uzbekistan's 2012 GDP worth $35 billion (that's the official sum figure converted ...
March 5, 2013 - 6:45am from MicroCapital
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation (GCAMF), an organization that offers financing products to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and social business projects in Africa and Eurasia, recently informed MicroCapital that it has approved a three-year, local-currency loan equivalent to USD 599,000 to the MFI Oxus Tajikistan. As of June 30, 2012, the institution had approximately 10,000 clients, 82 percent of whom lived in rural areas and 33 percent of whom were women. ...
February 13, 2013 - 5:03am from MicroCapital
The nonprofit AlHuda Center for Islamic Banking and Economics (CIBE) has signed an agreement with Hamkor Bank, a provider of microfinance services in Uzbekistan, to provide advisory services on Islamic microfinance and human capital development. Islamic microfinance models comply with Islamic law, the Shariah, which prohibits interest payments and fees, by way of concepts such as joint venture and profit sharing. For the year 2011, Hamkor Bank reported to the US-based nonprofit ...
November 14, 2012 - 11:59pm from MicroCapital
This afternoon, the Remittances Action Group of the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) met to share member experiences, plan future action steps and announce the release of the “Financial Literacy for Remittances and Diaspora Investments” handbook [PLEASE NOTE: This link is due to be activated by November 16]. The document, which is the first of three planned outputs to be completed by the group, ...
November 12, 2012 - 1:22pm from Microfinance Africa
By Ronnel W. Domingo, Inquirer Technology MANILA, Philippines—Mobile banking in the Philippines is expanding into microfinance to ...
August 23, 2012 - 1:02am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
India: “With an equity infusion, the worst appears to be over for SKS Microfinance”
July 2, 2012 - 12:47pm from Microfinance Nigeria
The First International Forum of Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions held under the patronage of His Excellency, Dr. Fayez al-Tarawneh– Prime Minister of Jordan has come to end today in Amman; the Capital city of Jordan. The Forum was jointly organized by General Council of Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions – Bahrain and Strategy – Jordan. In this forum, different topics like Emerging trends of Islamic Banking in Arab Countries, Legal and Taxation matters of Islamic banking, ...
July 2, 2012 - 12:45pm from Microfinance Africa
The First International Forum of Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions held under the patronage of His Excellency, Dr. Fayez al-Tarawneh– Prime Minister of Jordan has come to end today in Amman; the Capital city of Jordan. The Forum was jointly organized by ...
July 2, 2012 - 9:47am from Reserve Bank of India Notifications
To All Authorised Persons, who are Indian Agents under the Money Transfer Service Scheme Madam / Sir, Master Circular on Money Transfer Service Scheme Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) is a quick and easy way of transferring personal remittances from abroad to ...
June 22, 2012 - 7:15am from RemittancesGateway
Russia, one of the world's main recipients of migrant labor, is a major destination country for migrant workers from Central Asia. Remittances from Russia are especially critical to the economies of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan,1accounting in Tajikistan's case for nearly half of the country's GDP. But as the 2008 ...
June 22, 2012 - 7:15am from RemittancesGateway
Russia, one of the world's main recipients of migrant labor, is a major destination country for migrant workers from Central Asia. Remittances from Russia are especially critical to the economies of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan,1accounting in Tajikistan's case for nearly half of the country's GDP. But as the 2008 ...
May 16, 2012 - 1:22am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Pakistan: "Rs 600m interest-free loans disbursed in Punjab"
May 11, 2012 - 1:43am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“Total assets of microcredit organizations of Uzbekistan amounted to 22,968 million soums”
May 11, 2012 - 1:39am from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
“Total assets of microcredit organizations of Uzbekistan amounted to 22,968 million soums”