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Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems
[Update: Matt Flannery, CEO and Co-Founder of Kiva, replied to this post as a guest blogger.MicroPlace , a US-to-developing world P2P lending platform (somewhat like Kiva ) is scheduled to launch some time this fall, possibly as early as September. MicroPlace will let Americans with as little as $100 make a low-interest loan to an entrepreneur in a developing nation through a microfinance institution.
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Microfinance Information Exchange
Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (commonly known by its acronym MIX ) is a non-profit organization that acts as a business information provider in the microfinance sector.
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Update: This post has generated a very interesting discussion in a different blog.Making Finance Work for Africa
Securitization is a financial engineering technique that enables a private or public entity to raise cash by selling its cash-flow producing assets or its future revenues. These assets are sold to a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) which, in order to raise the needed cash, issues fixed income securities on the local capital market.
Tanzania: First Women's Bank begins operations
The Tanzania Women’s Bank (TWB) was inaugurated on July 28 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This pioneering initiative, the first of its kind in Africa, essentially aims at promoting economic activities undertaken by women. This comes as a relief for African women who, despite their enormous contribution towards economic development, paradoxically, do not always have easy access to banking services for economic reasons.Caritas
Consorzio Etimos
Etimos is an international financial consortium with Headquarters in Padua, Italy, and three regional offices in Sri Lanka, Argentina and Senegal. It collects savings in Europe and invests in developing and emerging countries financing microfinance institutions, producers cooperatives linked to Fair trade markets and social enterprises.
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International Women’s Day is when we celebrate the strides made towards equality, but it also reminds us that gender is a powerful determinant of economic opportunities, particularly in developing countries. Financial inclusion is one of the areas where we observe a gender gap—women in developing economies are still relatively more excluded from the financial sector than men, even after controlling for income and educationGrameen Bank Complex at Mirpur-2, Dhaka The Grameen family of organizations has grown beyond Grameen Bank into a multi-faceted group of profitable and non-profit ventures, established by Dr. Muhammad Yunus , the Nobel Peace Prize winning founder of Grameen Bank.
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Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation , founded as Grameen Foundation USA , is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions .Is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance institutions. by Nov 10
The PSD Blog - PSD Blog - The World Bank Group
The Private Sector Development Blog (PSD Blog) gathers together news, resources and ideas about the role of private enterprise in fighting poverty. The blog is informal and represents the quirks and opinions of the bloggers, not the World Bank Group. by Nov 12
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans [ 3 ] to developing countries for capital programs .CGAP>Islamic Microfinance Challenge 2010: Innovating Sustainable, Scalable, and Market-Driven Models
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