15 hours ago by admin

A recent news article prompted a world-wide discussion of the investment potentials in microlending. The article described three microlending companies and they stated they have a 97 percent success rate in repayment of microloans with rates between 3 and 5 percent return on investment. Of course, w ...

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16 hours ago by grameenfoundation

Asif Dowla blogged about his recent White Paper examining the critical role microfinance institutions (MFIs) can play in mitigating the impact of climate change on poor people for the CGAP blog. As the events at the Copenhagen summit on climate change continue to unfold this week, I think it is impo ...

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16 hours ago by grameenfoundation

Muhammad Yunus and Royston Braganza Royston and I spent the first few hours on Monday back in the Grameen Complex in Dhaka. The most exciting meeting was with two retired Grameen Bank officials — Fazley Rabbi and, briefly, Abser Kamal – both of whom now work with Grameen Shakti (Energy). Shakti, a s ...

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18 hours ago by Watford Boy

At the end of October I blogged about Kiva , a microcredit organisation that helped facilitate loans from people like me to entrepreneurs who couldn´t access the traditional financial system because they did not have the requisite capital. I lent a group called Emprendedores de Sicuani $25 to help t ...

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22 hours ago by noteventherain

Exec summary: NGO in Southern India presents your group with 9 challenges facing it. You pick one and develop solution for sustainable change. Submit proposal by Jan 15. Three winners will be funded to travel to Southern India and implement their solutions. Could lead to long-term funding. Note: If ...

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1 day ago by planetparker

This morning I head a programme on the BBC World Service about microfinance: the provision of small, unsecured loans for business and investment outside of the conventional commercial banking system. Most of what I know about microfinance comes from my studies of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. This ...

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1 day ago by Silvia Cambie

Women are the last group in the world to enjoy full democracy. This is what Noble Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi believes due to the discrimination women face in “all countries without exception”. The Iranian human rights activist spoke at the Women in Education and Employment conference organised by the ...

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1 day ago by ::athada::

Below is a video clip of a person I lent to in Kyrgystan (transcript at bottom). I wrote earlier that my Mexico group posted a video as well. This is why I really like Kiva - the person-to-person contact and interaction. I know it increases the transaction cost, but it is vitally important to the wh ...

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1 day ago by Kindred Winecoff

Ann Dunham, mother of Barack Obama, was a cultural anthropologist who did her dissertation research in Indonesia (which is how young Barack ended up there). Now, 15 years after her death, Ms. Dunham's work is being published in book form for the first time, by Duke University Press. There's some obv ...

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