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The Microfinance Association is a international non-profit professional membership organisation for practitioners in the microfinance industry.
The Association is dedicated to the development and promotion of the microfinance sector. It is a centre of professional excellence, and an international focal point for ideas formulation and information gathering. The association belongs to the microfinance industry...more >
The Association is dedicated to the development and promotion of the microfinance sector. It is a centre of professional excellence, and an international focal point for ideas formulation and information gathering. The association belongs to the microfinance industry...more >
LATEST MICROFINANCE NEWS
DataBlitz: Microfinance - Swinburne Media Centre
DataBlitz is the academic equivalent of speed dating – a fast track vehicle to understand academic's research and possible synergies with others. Each session ...
www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/.../datablitz-microfinance
Microfinance Pioneer Records Large US Investments - DC
Grameen America, offshoot of Bangladeshi microfinance outfit, celebrating major milestone in foray into American market for small loans - Democracy in Culture, ...
www.democracychronicles.com/microfinance-pioneer-records...
Microfinance Gateway>A Challenge to Flat Earth Thinking in ...
The intensive promotion of microfinance worldwide as a palliative if not a panacea for poverty started in the mid-1990s. A strong message on the principles of ...
www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.../1.9.61626/
RBZ Demands Microfinance Bill Should Be Amended - All Africa
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience.
allafrica.com/stories/201305171165.html
Nobel Laureate and microfinance pioneer will speak at UNH | New ...
The University of New Hampshire will welcome Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and pioneer of the microfinance industry, to campus this fall as the keynote ...
www.unionleader.com/article/20130516/NEWS02/130519346
Rethinking Microfinance: Ethan Wagner at TEDxColumbiaCollege ...
Legatum CEO Mark Stoleson on Capital Inflows ...
Bam Aquino to push for microfinance in Senate
He added that the government needs to provide more incentives for non-governmental organizations and other micro-finance institutions to expand their reach and help potentially millions of Filipinos get started on small businesses and improving their ...
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Financial Literacy Awareness campaign starts
PK Khuman while speaking at the function said that Chanura Microfinance provides financial support to people especially womenfolk in the form of small loans in low interest. He added that his organisation also provides micro insurance policies to the ...
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Santa Barbara Middle School Micro-Finance Project — Teaching the World to ...
What is Effective Altruism?
Most forms of do-gooding start out with a What (“I want to promote microfinance!”), move to a How (“maybe I should do a sponsored marathon?”) and simply take the Why for granted (“because of course microfinance is good!”). Effective altruism, in ...
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Omo Microfinance Disbursed 657M Birr in Loan
Omo Microfinance Institution S.C (OMFI) announced that it has disbursed 657 million Ethiopian birr in the first nine months of the current Ethiopian Fiscal Year. OMFI Credit and Saving Sector Head, Gelta Gadena, told Walta Information Center that,the ...
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A challenge to flat earth thinking in microfinance - M-CRIL
1 | Page. A challenge to flat earth thinking in microfinance. Sanjay Sinha. Micro- Credit Ratings International Limited. The intensive promotion of microfinance ...
m-cril.com/.../A-challenge-to-flat-earth-thinking-in-microfina...
Microfinance in America | Microfinance on GOOD
Microfinance groups are creating personal resilience and eliminating poverty.
www.good.is/posts/microfinance-in-america
beehive.govt.nz - Microfinance support for people on low incomes
beehive.govt.nz - The official website of the New Zealand Government.
www.beehive.govt.nz/.../microfinance-support-people-low-inc...
Microfinance: Ensuring an ethical basis for Canada's international ...
SocialFinance.ca is a network of investors, enterprises, and enablers that are actively harnessing finance for social impact through community investment, ...
socialfinance.ca/.../microfinance-ensuring-an-ethical-basis-for-...
Elections 2013: 'Dir women disenfranchised for security reasons'
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/5
The Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour has proposed expanding a HCM City-based microfinance fund to help more poor households take out low-interest loans, according to Mai Duc Chinh, deputy head of the conference. Although the Capital Aid ...
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Join me out of Africa as we raise micro loans
I'm going to be climbing Mt Kilimanjaro next month to raise money for World Vision's newest initiative; microfinance: World Vision Micro. Joining me on the climb will be singer-songwriter Boh Runga, Olympic rowing sensations Mahe Drysdale and Juliette ...
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Microcredit guru shares friendship, birthplace with local man - Rapid City Journal
That initial investment in 42 micro-finance loans worked out to the equivalent of 62 cents for each borrower. They were self-employed weavers and potters who went on to pay back their loans with profits from their sales and today, millions of ...
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DataBlitz is the academic equivalent of speed dating – a fast track vehicle to understand academic's research and possible synergies with others. Each session ...
www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/.../datablitz-microfinance
Microfinance Pioneer Records Large US Investments - DC
Grameen America, offshoot of Bangladeshi microfinance outfit, celebrating major milestone in foray into American market for small loans - Democracy in Culture, ...
www.democracychronicles.com/microfinance-pioneer-records...
Microfinance Gateway>A Challenge to Flat Earth Thinking in ...
The intensive promotion of microfinance worldwide as a palliative if not a panacea for poverty started in the mid-1990s. A strong message on the principles of ...
www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.../1.9.61626/
RBZ Demands Microfinance Bill Should Be Amended - All Africa
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience.
allafrica.com/stories/201305171165.html
Nobel Laureate and microfinance pioneer will speak at UNH | New ...
The University of New Hampshire will welcome Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and pioneer of the microfinance industry, to campus this fall as the keynote ...
www.unionleader.com/article/20130516/NEWS02/130519346
Rethinking Microfinance: Ethan Wagner at TEDxColumbiaCollege ...
| Ethan Wagner founded 50/50 with the goal of finding a better, fairer, and more effective way of ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XND_TFizzI0 |
Legatum CEO Mark Stoleson on Capital Inflows ...
| Today, there's only one state that has taken action against microfinance organisations. That state's actions have had a country-wide negative impact. Basically, what it has done is kill off almost the entire sector. As believers in business, we believe ... » |
Bam Aquino to push for microfinance in Senate
He added that the government needs to provide more incentives for non-governmental organizations and other micro-finance institutions to expand their reach and help potentially millions of Filipinos get started on small businesses and improving their ...
»
Financial Literacy Awareness campaign starts
PK Khuman while speaking at the function said that Chanura Microfinance provides financial support to people especially womenfolk in the form of small loans in low interest. He added that his organisation also provides micro insurance policies to the ...
»
Santa Barbara Middle School Micro-Finance Project — Teaching the World to ...
| Santa Barbara Middle School students just passed the one-year benchmark for their new micro-financing project and their investment work with Kiva.org, the nonprofit whose micro-finance loans change lives all over the world in an effort to alleviate ... » |
What is Effective Altruism?
Most forms of do-gooding start out with a What (“I want to promote microfinance!”), move to a How (“maybe I should do a sponsored marathon?”) and simply take the Why for granted (“because of course microfinance is good!”). Effective altruism, in ...
»
Omo Microfinance Disbursed 657M Birr in Loan
Omo Microfinance Institution S.C (OMFI) announced that it has disbursed 657 million Ethiopian birr in the first nine months of the current Ethiopian Fiscal Year. OMFI Credit and Saving Sector Head, Gelta Gadena, told Walta Information Center that,the ...
»
A challenge to flat earth thinking in microfinance - M-CRIL
1 | Page. A challenge to flat earth thinking in microfinance. Sanjay Sinha. Micro- Credit Ratings International Limited. The intensive promotion of microfinance ...
m-cril.com/.../A-challenge-to-flat-earth-thinking-in-microfina...
Microfinance in America | Microfinance on GOOD
Microfinance groups are creating personal resilience and eliminating poverty.
www.good.is/posts/microfinance-in-america
beehive.govt.nz - Microfinance support for people on low incomes
beehive.govt.nz - The official website of the New Zealand Government.
www.beehive.govt.nz/.../microfinance-support-people-low-inc...
Microfinance: Ensuring an ethical basis for Canada's international ...
SocialFinance.ca is a network of investors, enterprises, and enablers that are actively harnessing finance for social impact through community investment, ...
socialfinance.ca/.../microfinance-ensuring-an-ethical-basis-for-...
Elections 2013: 'Dir women disenfranchised for security reasons'
| As a cabinet member, Haq said his first priority would be to reopen the schools destroyed by Taliban insurgents in the province and to launch a microfinance scheme for graduates. “Under the scheme, loans will be provided to graduates according to their ... » |
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/5
The Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour has proposed expanding a HCM City-based microfinance fund to help more poor households take out low-interest loans, according to Mai Duc Chinh, deputy head of the conference. Although the Capital Aid ...
»
Join me out of Africa as we raise micro loans
I'm going to be climbing Mt Kilimanjaro next month to raise money for World Vision's newest initiative; microfinance: World Vision Micro. Joining me on the climb will be singer-songwriter Boh Runga, Olympic rowing sensations Mahe Drysdale and Juliette ...
»
Microcredit guru shares friendship, birthplace with local man - Rapid City Journal
That initial investment in 42 micro-finance loans worked out to the equivalent of 62 cents for each borrower. They were self-employed weavers and potters who went on to pay back their loans with profits from their sales and today, millions of ...
»
