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World Vision was very pleased Foreign Correspondent wanted to cover the story of hunger in Ethiopia, and was happy to help facilitate the trip that resulted in the story shown last Tuesday.
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25/11/2008: Ethiopia - The Endless Famine - Story Archive - Foreign Correspondent
Synopsis Almost a quarter of a century since Ethiopia suffered the devastating famine that led to the Live Aid concerts around the world and an outpouring of global generosity, a tenth of Ethiopia’s population are at risk of starvation. In the remote Afar region that borders Somalia, Geoghegan travels with Australian woman, Valerie Browning, who’s married to a local tribal chief.
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The emergence of a micro-financial sector operated by Previously Disadvantaged Individuals (PDI’s), in South Africa’s townships, informal settlements and rural communities is presenting “an interesting challenge in understanding how they interact with their communities, how many there are and the extent to which they’re bridge builders between South Africa’s so-called second economy and formal, more sophisticated financial services”, says , Education and Communications manager of the Micro Finance Regulatory Council.
Micro Finance Regulatory Council
Hein Kleynhans Others v Onecor (Pty) Ltd case number 12800/2004 This case makes for very interesting reading. The case was decided in the High Court (TPD) the issue related to the signing of process documents of the same day as the loan agreement is entered into.
Micro Finance Regulatory Council
NEW: Supreme Court of Appeal finds in favour of MFRC
Micro Finance Regulatory Council
[This post first appeared at the "Arguing the World" blog at Dissent magazine.] Those looking to make fistfuls of cash by lending to the poor will already be aware of the following news item, but the rest of you might have missed it: one of the big initial public stock offerings of recent weeks was not for some Silicon Valley start-up, the next Google or Amazon.
hi Charis, showing pearltrees at work. Great links on micro-finance by le_sommelier_ May 5