Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Yemen:
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May 20, 2013 - 3:07pm
from BRAC Blog
Nazia Moqueet is a Research Associate at BRAC Development Institute and is currently based out of BRAC USA. In March 2013, she was in Yemen to conduct a process evaluation of the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot. She conducted several participant and staff interviews and focus group discussions over a period of two weeks. In this post, originally published at the CGAP-Ford Graduation Pilot program blog, She ...
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May 20, 2013 - 11:46am
from Google news - microfinance
Islamic Microfinance research study initiated in YemenAME Info (press release)This study will be conducted in the Yemen's capital Sana'a including Taiz, Adan and Almoukla, so that the Islamic Microfinance products can be examined broadly and further Islamic ...
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May 15, 2013 - 9:14am
from AidData: The First Tranche
If you needed reliable and comprehensive data on development finance flowing into your country, where would you go? We often assume that the most detailed and accurate records are maintained by the organizations directly involved. The OECD-DAC donors regularly report their data through the Creditor Reporting System (CRS), and recipient governments maintain their own databases of external financing, some of which are open to the public. So you would go to one of those official sources, ...
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May 10, 2013 - 2:31pm
from Google news - microfinance
Yemen wants to expand Islamic microfinance exposure : Research StudyYemen PostA press release explaining this new program study read "This study will be conducted in the Yemen's capital Sana'a including Taiz, Adan and al-Moukla, so that the Islamic microfinance ...
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May 10, 2013 - 11:09am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
Political upheaval and ongoing violence have hindered development in Yemen, especially since the onset of the Arab Spring in 2010. In an effort to foster hope and stability among Yemen’s poor, who have been disproportionately affected by the country’s turmoil, Al-Amal Microfinance Bank is working to introduce a range of Sharia-compliant microfinance products aimed at reaching the unbanked.
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May 9, 2013 - 8:53am
from Microfinance Africa
Existing demand and future trends of Islamic Microfinance will be determined: Zubair Mughal
8th May, 13 (Sana’a/Lahore ): AlHuda Center of Islamic banking and economics (CIBE) Initiated a Islamic Microfinance research study for Yemen ...
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May 9, 2013 - 8:51am
from Microfinance Nigeria
8th May, 13 (Sana’a/Lahore ): AlHuda Center of Islamic banking and economics (CIBE) Initiated a Islamic Microfinance research study for Yemen Microfinance Network (YMN) in Yemen. This study will be conducted in the Yemen’s capital Sana’a including Taiz, Adan and Almoukla, so that the Islamic Microfinance products can be examined broadly and ...
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May 9, 2013 - 2:59am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Pakistan: "Credit guarantee scheme tenure enhanced"
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May 8, 2013 - 9:10pm
from Google news - microfinance
Islamic microfinance research study initiated in YemenPakistan Daily TimesIslamic microfinance research study initiated in Yemen. LAHORE: AlHuda Center of Islamic Banking and Economics (CIBE) initiated an Islamic microfinance research study ...
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May 8, 2013 - 1:16pm
from Google news - microfinance
Islamic microfinance research study initiated in YemenCPI FinancialThis study will be conducted in the Yemen's capital Sana'a including Taiz, Adan and Almoukla, so that the Islamic microfinance products can be examined broadly and further ...
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April 16, 2013 - 12:54pm
from Microfinance Africa
Islamic Microfinance industry is rapidly progressing due to its superior performance for poverty alleviation
(Abu Dhabi)Islamic Microfinance is rapidly gaining acceptance in Muslim and Non- Muslim countries due to its remarkable performance in poverty eradication; because of which, ...
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April 16, 2013 - 12:53pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Islamic Microfinance industry is rapidly progressing due to its superior performance for poverty alleviation
(Abu Dhabi)Islamic Microfinance is rapidly gaining acceptance in Muslim and Non- Muslim countries due to its remarkable performance in poverty eradication; because of which, this industry is making quick progress. According to our careful estimate Islamic Microfinance market’s worth has reached $1 billion. These views were expressed by Muhammad Zubair ...
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March 24, 2013 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
Pro Mujer Bolivia, a branch of the US-based nonprofit Pro Mujer, recently secured unspecified support from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, to raise awareness of violence against women among Pro Mujer employees. The plan includes workshops for Pro Mujer employees, including special training for employees who are victims of domestic violence. Increased incidents of femicide in Bolivia reportedly led Pro Mujer ...
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March 22, 2013 - 2:40pm
from MicroCapital
Pi Slice, a start-up crowdfunding platform based in Dubai, reportedly plans to link poor entrepreneurs in the Middle East to microloans raised via social media. Supported by MicroWorld, an internet platform created by French NGO PlaNet Finance and French investment company Groupe Allard, Pi Slice aims to assist farmers as well as unemployed youth in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. Members of the public can make loans in increments of USD 20 via Pi Slice to partner microfinance institutions ...
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March 1, 2013 - 7:51pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Ronnel W. Domingo, Business Inquirer
A NON-PROFIT organization based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is in talks with possible private-sector ...
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February 26, 2013 - 3:33pm
from MicroCapital
Qatar-based Silatech, a social enterprise that seeks to promote youth entrepreneurship and employment in the Arab world, and the American Refugee Committee (ARC), a US-based nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance in Haiti, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, are partnering with Kaah Express, a US-based for-profit money transfer company, to introduce a new microfinance program in Somalia. With training and technical assistance from Silatech and ARC, Kaah will provide microloans, ...
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February 16, 2013 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The Sanad Fund for MSME (micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises), an initiative of the German development bank Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau Entwicklungsbank that invests in financial institutions in the Middle East and North Africa, recently agreed to disburse a senior loan facility of USD 2 million to Palestine for Credit and Development, a microfinance institution (MFI) based in Palestine’s West Bank that is known as Faten in Arabic. Further details on the loan have not yet been ...
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February 15, 2013 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
We already know a fair amount about the ways poor people and their communities benefit from cash transfers, but we know far less about what poor people themselves think about these programmes: what they particularly ...
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February 6, 2013 - 2:35am
from MicroCapital
The Sanad Fund for MSME (micro-, small and medium-sized enterprise), an initiative of the German development bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau Entwicklungsbank that provides debt and equity to financial institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), announced that it has agreed to loan USD 20 million to Bank Audi, a private bank headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in MENA. Bank Audi is active in the following 10 countries as ...
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February 4, 2013 - 8:30pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
In light of recent political and social unrest in the region, foreign investors are taking a “wait-and-see” attitude to projects in the Middle East and North Africa. For the region’s investment promoters, this demands better, more proactive performance than in the past. Fortunately, although much remains to be done, the investment agencies of the 19 MENA governments are, as a group, ...
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