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2007 MIX Asia 100: Ranking of Microfinance Institutions
2008-05-19 08:25:00 MIX and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) present the first set of rankings of Asian microfinance institutions (MFIs) – the 2007 MIX Asia 100. The report draws on year 2006 outreach and financial performance results of 392 MFIs across 23 countries to highlight the achievements of the microfinance industry within the region. Asian microfinance has long been touted for its...
By: Asiaing.com
Taking Microfinance to the Next Level - SendMeRSS
2008-02-27 05:25:00 Taking Microfinance to the Next LevelThe aim of outfits such as BlueOrchard to serve those below the poverty line is both a philanthropic and profitable endeavor Link - Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:02:00 GMT - Feed (2 subs) Sent using SendMeRss.com. Visit here to unsubscribe from "2-business" via X2 in Google. Recommended Feeds/Actions Subscribe MSNBC.com: Scarborough Country
Job Vacancy at Plan International Indonesia as Microfinance Specialist
2008-01-20 00:00:00 Plan is an international humanitarian, child-centered community development organization without religious, political or governmental affiliation. Plan?s vision is a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people?s rights and dignity. Plan Indonesia is looking for a dynamic Indonesian national to fill the position of: Microfinance Specialist Based In Jakarta Plan Indonesia ...
Microfinance direct
2008-01-06 19:01:00 Forget about your high street branch, the future of banks is online. Why do borrowers and lenders need an intermediate institution if there is the Internet? It works for books, holiday homes and unwanted Christmas presents, so why not for credit, the founders of websites like Zopa and LendingClub must have thought.The principle has also been adopted in the charity world. Microfinance, made popular by Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus and Dutch fund manager Marilou van Golstein Brouwers, has discovered online lending as a cheap and effective way to match small business owners in the developing world with individual investors. An intermediate organisation such as Kiva allows you to lend $325 to Thuli Maiya Lama in Nepal, who needs the money to buy seeds and fertilizer for her farm. Kiva's local partners take care of the loan servicing and collection, and if all is well you should have the money back in 12 months, repaid in monthly terms.Some teething problems remain. The Dutch peer-t...
Seven Indian microfinance institutions in Forbes? 50 list
2007-12-27 04:13:00 Seven Indian microfinance institutions (MFIs), the highest for a country, feature in the first ever list of world’s top 50 MFIs compiled by Forbes magazine.
By: Latest News
The World's Top Microfinance Institutions - Forbes
2007-12-21 00:21:00 The World's Top Microfinance InstitutionsForbes, NY&nbs-p;- 50 minutes agoOur microfinance package also includes fresh commentary from Elizabeth Littlefield, a senior World Bank official, who discusses public vs. private funds ...
eBay Opens Developing World Microfinance Site
2007-11-29 17:55:00 [From: Read/Write Web] In May 2006, eBay quietly acquired a microfinance company called MicroPlace, which it said was part of an “ongoing initiative … focused on maximizing our corporate resources to continue to drive social good through a variety of innovative programs.” A year and a half later, MicroPlace has finally officially opened its doors to ...
By: News for Greens
Breaking Through Poverty with Microfinance - Grameen Fdn
2007-11-19 05:34:00 For many of the world’s poorest people, access to credit is their golden opportunity to forge a better life for their families with microfinance, a proven poverty reduction program. Since 1997, Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, sustaining or expand tiny businesses. Breaking Through ...
Microfinance for the people by the people
2007-10-25 15:11:00 The internet continues to develop clever little experiments. eBay has just started up a site called MicroPlace.com where US citizens can go online and fund their own microfinance project. What? Think of it as an aid foster child programme, but instead of a child you get a business, and instead of a photo and crayon scribbled ...
By: Carson's Post
EBay: The Place for Microfinance (BusinessWeek)
2007-10-24 13:45:00 EBay: The Place for Microfinance (BusinessWeek) via Yahoo! News Search Results for ebay on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Latest Issue of Microfinance Insights Focuses on Innovations in Financial S
2007-10-21 15:28:00 Mumbai: Intellecap recently released the fourth issue of Microfinance Insights, its quarterly thematic magazine. The focus of the fourth volume is on innovations in the area of delivery of financial services.Making financial services more accessible and their delivery more efficient, while diversifying the traditional areas of financial support, has been on the mind of the industry for some time now. Drawing from the experiences of various microfinance institutions, research bodies, and sector experts, the Issue looks at how best industry knowledge and practice can be leveraged to add value and diversify delivery mechanisms for those at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP).The cover story tracks evolution in businesses and presents an interesting ?wave theory? of innovation in microfinance. Articles recognizing the power of social networks cite examples from ITC, a corporate firm which innovates and downscales to tap the potential of BOP market, an MFI Spandana and an NGO Swayam Shikshan...
Latest Issue of Microfinance Insights Focuses on Innovations in Financial S
2007-10-21 15:28:00 Mumbai: Intellecap recently released the fourth issue of Microfinance Insights, its quarterly thematic magazine. The focus of the fourth volume is on innovations in the area of delivery of financial services.Making financial services more accessible and their delivery more efficient, while diversifying the traditional areas of financial support, has been on the mind of the industry for some time now. Drawing from the experiences of various microfinance institutions, research bodies, and sector experts, the Issue looks at how best industry knowledge and practice can be leveraged to add value and diversify delivery mechanisms for those at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP).The cover story tracks evolution in businesses and presents an interesting ‘wave theory’ of innovation in microfinance. Articles recognizing the power of social networks cite examples from ITC, a corporate firm which innovates and downscales to tap the potential of BOP market, an MFI Spandana and an NGO Swayam Shik...
BNDES - Brazilian Microfinance & Development Bank
2007-08-14 14:27:00 For those of you who require further detailed information, including financial reports on this sector, I absolutely recommend checking out the BNDES page on Microfinance in particular, their page on Social Inclusion .
By: S. Thom
BNDES - Brazilian Microfinance & Development Bank
2007-08-14 14:27:00 For those of you who require further detailed information, including financial reports on this sector, I absolutely recommend checking out the BNDES page on Microfinance in particular, their page on Social Inclusion .
By: S. Thom
Grameen Foundation
2007-08-14 14:17:00 Microfinance would not be where it is today without the dedication, vision and commitment of the Grameen Foundation. Founded in the 1970’s, this organisation began by making small loans to local farmers in Bangladesh. In collaboration with the Grameen Bank, progress is slowly being made to reduce poverty and develop social integration of secluded communities. ...
By: S. Thom
Grameen Foundation
2007-08-14 14:17:00 Microfinance would not be where it is today without the dedication, vision and commitment of the Grameen Foundation. Founded in the 1970’s, this organisation began by making small loans to local farmers in Bangladesh. In collaboration with the Grameen Bank, progress is slowly being made to reduce poverty and develop social integration of secluded communities. ...
By: S. Thom
Fund Entrepreneurs through KIVA
2007-08-14 14:11:00 There has been much discussion on the Web about Kiva.org , and with good reason. This philanthropic network is responsible for putting aspiring entrepreneurs in developing nations directly in contact with those who aspire to help them to help themselves. Further, detailed information is available on their excellent blog hosted by SocialEdge.
By: S. Thom
Fund Entrepreneurs through KIVA
2007-08-14 14:11:00 There has been much discussion on the Web about Kiva.org , and with good reason. This philanthropic network is responsible for putting aspiring entrepreneurs in developing nations directly in contact with those who aspire to help them to help themselves. Further, detailed information is available on their excellent blog hosted by SocialEdge. Personally, I have ...
By: S. Thom
Microfinancing: A Social Capitalism Success
2007-08-13 18:06:00 Microfinancing, the loaning of small amounts of money to the asset-less poor, garnered worldwide attention last year when one of the leaders in this emerging field, Grameen Bank, and its founder...
By: Green Options
Microfinance growing fast in South Asia: World Bank report - Indian Express
2007-07-22 23:28:00 Microfinance growing fast in South Asia: World Bank reportIndian Express, India - 27 minutes agoAccording to a recent World Bank report, microfinance today meets around 15 per cent of the overall credit requirements of low-income families. ...
Teach a Man to Fish and You Will Feed Him For A LifeTime
2007-06-07 08:38:00 google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "3366CC"; google_color_url = "000000"; google_color_text = "000000"; This is saying of Confucius for how a man can survive: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime”. Just giving help or alms is ...
Microfinance: The Most Effective Way to Start a Livelihood
2007-06-06 07:37:00 google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "3366CC"; google_color_url = "000000"; google_color_text = "000000"; Microfinancing is the answer to enhance a small or micro enterprises. It is lending of small amount to micro entrepreneurs or businessman. So what is the difference between ordinary loans to banks and microfinancing? First of all there is no collateral involved. The ...
On Microfinance
2007-05-01 05:47:00 Microfinance is touted as the big thing that can alleviate rural poverty. I personally believe, like a lot of others, that it is surely one of the means for the same. It is one of those things which gives us hope. Businessworld has been covering microfinance for a while now and I ...
Microfinance unleashes Mexico's entrepreneurs
2007-05-01 00:49:00 There is something of a Dickensian feel about the makeshift factory at the bottom of Ãlvaro Avelár López's garden in Amecameca, a quiet Mexican town that sits under the Popocatépetl volcano.
By: Get rich
Microfinance unleashes Mexico's entrepreneurs
2007-05-01 00:49:00 There is something of a Dickensian feel about the makeshift factory at the bottom of Ãlvaro Avelár López's garden in Amecameca, a quiet Mexican town that sits under the Popocatépetl volcano.
By: Get rich
Microfinance - Time to take the credit
2007-04-05 02:44:00 Success has many fathers. No wonder, then, that paternity suits are flying in microfinance?lending small amounts to help the poor pull themselves out of poverty. Thanks first to charities and, later, international financial institutions (IFIs) like the World Bank, microfinance has been shown to work. Now philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Pierre Omidyar, the ...
By: Templar Globe
Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerabil
2007-01-24 18:19:02 The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) has taken over 25 years of microfinance activities, programmes and banks that were administered by sister agencies within the Aga Khan Development Network. This amounts to a portfolio at the end of June 2006 of over US$ 52 million in outstanding microloans to over 97,000 beneficiaries in 12 ...
By: My Africa today
Unitus Microfinance Microcredit Introduction Video
2006-12-03 02:05:01 Watch this 14-minute video to learn how Unitus works to alleviate global poverty through microfinance. Microfinance products such as savings accounts, microcredit loans (usually $50 to $150), and health insurance empower the poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Through microfinance, they can secure better nutrition, education, healthcare and housing for their families. Microfinance has helped millions in developing countries raise their standards of living and protect themselves from economic setbacks. Unitus is a global microfinance accelerator that acts as a social venture capital investor for the microfinance industry. Unitus identifies the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and helps accelerate their growth through capital investments and capacity-building consulting, thus empowering them to help exponentially more poor people worldwide. In doing so, Unitus aims to demonstrate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, pove...
By: Current Era Blog
Sponsored run round Loch Ness, in aid of the ?Action for Brazil?s Children?
1969-12-31 19:00:00 Hello and welcome to my blog. This page has been set up to raise awareness for the requirements for social and economic development in the state of Bahia, Brazil. A recent visit to Salvador and surrounding area has given me the motivation to spend time helping others by applying my knowledge in a positive, constructive way. As ...
By: S. Thom
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