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May 15, 2012 - 1:46pm
from MicroCapital
MicroNed, a network of Dutch organizations involved in microfinance, has introduced MicroScore, a tool intended to help microfinance institutions (MFIs) and cooperatives assess themselves before, during, and after conducting capacity building programmes. MicroScore measures the following four performance ratios: governance, institutional, financial performance management, and services and social performance management.
Joost de La Rive Box, a Dutch microfinance consultant ...
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May 14, 2012 - 1:34am
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
I spent Friday and Saturday at the BREAD development conference at Yale (program here). It differs from most conferences - which feature many papers each presented for a short amount of time- by instead having only 7 papers each presented for 1 hour 15 minutes with plenty of spirited discussion. The conference featured some interesting papers, including
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May 9, 2012 - 10:03pm
from Kiva.org
Imagine waking up at 5 a.m., working for six hours in a rice field, then having to go sell goods at a crowded market for another six? As I sit here writing this in an air-conditioned office, I can't help but feel like my workload is trivial by comparison.Rice -- commonly referred to as the "gift from God" -- is a staple of the Vietnamese ...
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May 9, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), a Vietnamese government agency, recently has announced plans to implement a microfinance sector development project in the country until 2020. The plan aims to develop microfinance institutions (MFIs) to reduce poverty and secure social protection. Phase one of the project, which will last from inception until 2015, will include: formulating guidelines for the law on credit institutions related to microfinance activities; advise the government about ...
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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 - 11:09pm
from Kiva.org
There's a Vietnamese saying that “Soft rain penetrates the soil better than a storm.” This belief -- that small, consistent action can be more powerful that acute bursts -- speaks to the success of microfinance.In Viet Nam, the economic surge that exploded growth and wealth in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City didn’t fully extend into the rural areas, ...
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April 27, 2012 - 2:22pm
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The selection of the American nominee Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank over Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who was overwhelmingly regarded as a vastly superior candidate, is impossible to condone but easy to explain. It also points to serious dangers for the unfinished task of development.The selection ...
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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 24, 2012 - 5:27am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
Thanks to the launch of the Global Findex data set, based on nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults in 148 economies, we have a fresh and robust answer to that question—approximately 2.5 billion adults lack a formal bank account. Most of these people are concentrated in developing ...
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April 19, 2012 - 10:03pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
WSBI works with savings banks in the developing world to increase the number of savings accounts for the poor. The ten participating banks are KPOSB Kenya, LPB Lesotho, PBU Uganda, SAPB South ...
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April 18, 2012 - 6:01pm
from Kiva.org
The upside of adversity: it brings people together.We see this in many of the countries where we do business, but it's particularly pronounced in Benin where the historic vacuum of opportunities has motivated men and women alike to pull together to create, support, educate and pool funds. This foundation of self-reliance and community offers a strong base for microfinance to invigorate ...
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April 5, 2012 - 5:04am
from MicroCapital
“Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Markets: How Banks Can Grasp a $350 Billion Opportunity,” by Mutsa Chironga, et al; published by McKinsey & Company; 2012; 58 pages; available at:
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April 2, 2012 - 1:00pm
from MicroCapital
“Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011;” by Angus McCrone, et al; published by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Frankfurt School UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance; July 2011; 61 pages; available at:
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March 30, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
Freedom from Hunger, US-based NGO focused on alleviating hunger and poverty, has recently announced the start of a new blog intended to address the impact that microfinance has on poor people around the world. Hosted by Chris Dunford, senior research fellow at Freedom from Hunger, and entitled ‘The Evidence Project: What we’re learning about microfinance and world hunger’, the blog aims to explore themes and research on how microfinance has contributed to the relief of poverty and hunger. ...
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March 28, 2012 - 1:02pm
from MicroLinks News and Announcements
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March 28, 2012 - 10:53am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
It's probably fair to say Rupert Scofield had no idea what he was getting himself into. It was 1971, he had just graduated, and entering the world of pinstripes and percentages inhabited by his father – an assistant treasurer at a bank in his native New York – seemed no more appealing than enlisting for the Vietnam war. So he ...
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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 26, 2012 - 9:05am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The velvety coffee slowly dripping from the filter into my glass is bitter and dark. But once mixed with the sweet, silky condensed milk at the bottom, it turns into a rich chocolaty brew. It is a fitting metaphor for the story of coffee in Vietnam.French colonists ...
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March 25, 2012 - 5:04am
from MicroCapital
Freedom from Hunger, a US-based non-governmental organization that aims to alleviate poverty, and Oikocredit, a Dutch cooperative investment fund, plan to partner with six microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru to implement Freedom from Hunger’s microfinance and health protection model. Freedom from Hunger and Oikocredit have worked with the MFIs to better understand client needs and develop health packages to improve both health knowledge and access ...
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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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