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April 18, 2012 - 2:53am
from Mundo Microfinanzas
(Mundo Microfinanzas) Uno de los pioneros del modelo de microconsignación y fundador de la organización norteamericana Community Enterprise Solutions (CE Solutions) fue elegido este martes como uno de los “emprendedores sociales del año”, durante la reunión del Foro Económico Mundial que se está realizando en Puerto Vallarta, ...
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March 19, 2012 - 2:29pm
from Acumen Fund Blog
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February 27 – March 16, 2012
Seen & Heard is a collection of recent headlines in the news about our world, our work, and the spaces and places in between. In each post, we also share a list of job openings at Acumen Fund and in our sector. Seen & Heard appears twice a month ...
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March 16, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Eyebrows hit the ceiling last month when it was found Chinese development banks lend more to Latin American governments than the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. A large proportion of Chinese finance in Latin ...
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March 15, 2012 - 3:57pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
The Hudson Institute recently published figures for the 2011 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, which AidData has posted on its Research Datasets page. The Hudson Institute's dataset contains figures for total official and estimated private flows from 1991-2009, including remittances, private investment, and philanthropy. It also provides ...
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February 27, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Three months after the fourth high level forum on aid effectiveness, held in Busan, much uncertainty still surrounds what the vaunted new Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation might look like. It ...
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February 9, 2012 - 7:22pm
from MicroCapital
By the Economist Intelligence Unit, funded by The Multilateral Investment Fund, Corporación Andina de Fomento and the International Finance Corporation, October 2011, 72 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=36453519.
This paper examines the microfinance business environments in 55 countries, ...
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January 12, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Shortly after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 300,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless, politicians worldwide promised large amounts of aid, and the international aid industry geared up to tackle one of the largest and most complex emergencies in history.Less than three ...
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January 11, 2012 - 1:30pm
from AidData: The First Tranche
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, and Bolivia's President Evo Morales look on during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Caracas. Source: AP/ Ricardo Mazalan"We have to create a new international system, and we're doing ...
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January 10, 2012 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The British foreign minister's recent visit to Burma demonstrates the kind of positive role western power continues to play in the world on human rights and democracy when other strategic factors do not interfere. The Burma Action Campaign, which has ...
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January 6, 2012 - 11:39am
from MicroCapital
Omtrix, a Costa Rica-based fund manager and financial consulting firm, has announced the launch of the Higher Education Finance Fund (HEFF), a student loan financing fund to promote and finance higher education opportunities for low-income youth in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay and Peru. HEFF will provide loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) for on-lending to underprivileged youth seeking funding for higher education. Omtrix, which was responsible for ...
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December 29, 2011 - 12:48pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Bolivia tiene más litio que cualquier otro país en el mundo pero su potencial de alimentar baterías de "ión litio" para carros eléctricos está en peligro de no concretarse.Las vastas reservas de litio están disueltos en una laguna salada debajo ...
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September 8, 2011 - 2:45pm
from Microfinance Focus
Microfinance Focus, September 8, 2011: The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a $100 million loan that will benefit 11,000 low-income households by improving or expanding access to water and sanitation services in approximately 68 rural communities in Venezuela.
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August 17, 2011 - 10:55am
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Venezuela ha sido tradicionalmente un país muy atrasado en cuanto al desarrollo de las microfinanzas, pero el deterioro de los últimos años es penoso. El reporte...
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August 11, 2011 - 7:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Think of revolution in Latin America and you may well picture men with berets riding tanks, addressing large crowds and oozing machismo. Scan photos from Cuba in the 1960s, or Nicaragua in the 1980s, and most of the leaders have beards or moustaches. Women may have helped to seize power and smash the old order – especially in Nicaragua – but precious few got senior positions in ...
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July 21, 2011 - 4:08am
from Microenterprise Access to Banking Services
The USAID-supported Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines – Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP-MABS) program in coordination with RBAP International Study Visit Program once again organized a study tour on Mobile Phone Banking for UTIBA, the supplier of Globe’s GCASH platform and representatives from Digitel Venezuela and Grupo Mas, Coca Cola, and DIPOR from Ecuador. Apart from visiting RBAP, the group also visited G-Xchange Inc (GXI), the Bangko Sentral ng ...
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July 7, 2011 - 10:37am
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
Más de 500 microempresarios de todo el país han participado en el Premio Citibank para Microempresarios desde el año de su fundación, en el 2005. Sesenta ya han sido...
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June 26, 2011 - 1:54am
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Last week I gave a talk at the Second European Research Conference on Microfinance in the Dutch city of Groningen (pronounced Grrrrrrrrrrrongn).
The organizers had a smart idea: pairing me with Milford Bateman in a plenary session. The potential for conflict made it inherently interesting. I don’t think the event was recorded for posterity. His talk covered similar ground to this
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June 23, 2011 - 9:07am
from Portal de Microfinanzas - Noticias
En Sudamérica los países andinos son ejemplo en microfinanzas. El desarrollo que se ha dado en naciones como Bolivia, Ecuador, Perú y Ecuador es destacable...
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June 8, 2011 - 1:08am
from Microfinanzas en América Latina
Se estima que más de la mitad de la población de Latinoamérica y el Caribe no tiene acceso a servicios bancarios formales básicos. Ampliar este acceso continúa siendo un reto importante en los países de la región. Sin embargo, en los últimos años se han desarrollado varias iniciativas con el fin de alcanzar una ...
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June 2, 2011 - 6:00pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In just a few days, on Sunday 5 June, an election will take place that will have a significant influence on the western hemisphere. At the moment, it is too close to call. Most of official Washington has been relatively quiet, but there is no doubt that the Obama administration has a big stake in the outcome of this poll. The ...
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