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• Kiva: Flannery Promises More Transperancy

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 141
  Flannery , Kiva , outlines transparency issue, admits bad education, promises stronger feedback loop ; http://j.mp/oW92z
  10 hours ago

• Contingency Planning for Crises Unimagined (Part 1)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Mohammed Al-Shawaf, KF9 Palestine Before proceeding, let me first state that this is not a political blog.  I neither have the expertise nor desire to engage in the complex web of conflict–latent or otherwise–that surrounds the major events of the last decade in Palestine.  I will attempt to reference and ...
  19 hours ago

• Another Wall to Fall

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 103
  Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below, he recounts his visits to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners ...
  1 day ago

• Press Release: Free Clinics in Pakistan Promote Microinsurance for Healthcare

  
  Ismaili Mail — Authority: 446
  Several hundred clients of the First Microinsurance Agency (FMiA) in Karachi were offered basic outpatient care, along with information on health insurance, in a new programme designed to make poor people aware of microinsurance services and their benefits. The clinics, which are sponsored by FMiA, are run by two ...
  1 day ago

• European Microfinance Week 2009 to reflect on MF performance amidst crisis

  
  Ismaili Mail — Authority: 446
  Microfinance Focus, Nov. 06, 2009: European Microfinance Week 2009 will take place from 24th – 26th November 2009 in Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg. Conference will be organized by the European Microfinance Platform, a microfinance network of over 115 organizations active in microfinance. The theme for the ...
  1 day ago

• Kiva Confusion

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  The New York Times  just picked up  on the buzz caused by David Roodman’s blog post  pointing out that Kiva  doesn’t lend directly to poor borrowers. Likening the revelation for many individual lenders to the scandal in the 1990s when many child sponsorship organizations amended their disclosures after the ...
  1 day ago

• (New) Kiva Cycle

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 141
  Kiva changed the cycle of loan disbursals : they can happen up to 30 days before a request is uploaded ; http://j.mp/a5kC4
  1 day ago

• Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Premal Shah, left, the president of Kiva, and David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development.
  1 day ago

• Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 439
  Image via Wikipedia Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country’s latest celebrated charity, Kiva.org . Oprah Winfrey extolled ...
  1 day ago

• What a Loan Smells Like:

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Brian Kelly, KF9, Armenia Not very good, at least in some of these Armenian villages I’ve been dropping in on lately.  Have you smelled a chicken coop, or a sty filled with 20 pigs lately? It’s tough to carry a conversation in there.  Visiting borrowers, at least in Armenian villages is quite the sensory ...
  1 day ago

• Economic Development the WISER Way

  
  Welker's Wikinomics Blog — Authority: 121
  Teaching at an international school affords me the privilege of encountering and learning from truly unique and diverse individuals. Last week, my Economics classes were lucky to have as a guest speaker one very interesting and inspirational young man named Andrew Cunningham. Andrew, originally from Vermont, graduated ...
  2 days ago

• Spreading the word: MFIs and Publicity

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Julie Pachico, KF9 Mexico A big part of the loan officers’ work load at FVP is “ prospectando ,” or heading out into the field and reaching out to potential clients. When I was first invited to come along I was a little nervous, as my career as a canvasser lasted for all of one day and I hate pushy sales ...
  3 days ago

• The Most Bizarre Client Interview (Part 2 of 2)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Eva Wu, KF9 Philippines Bizarre is probably not the best word to describe this client interview, but without a doubt we were intrigued and utterly fascinated by the alien-looking blob we saw sitting pretty before us. Corroi, HSPFI ’s Kiva Coordinator and I found ourselves staring at a live (or semi-live) sea ...
  3 days ago

• My Motorcycle Diary from Guayaquil

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Kimia Raafat, KF9 Ecuador Last week, I blogged about D-MIRO’s influence in the peri-urban zones of Guayaquil.  There is no way to describe the dedicated D-MIRO staff members and the lengths they go to reach those marginalized from the traditional financial system. So I opted to film a sample day! Here is ...
  3 days ago

• Microfinance technology and currency risks and hedging

  
  CGAP Technology Blog — Authority: 113
  Recently we caught up with Brian Cox, the CEO of MFX Solutions .  MFX Solutions was launched in July 2009 as the first dedicated currency hedging facility created by and for microfinance. The company was set up by a group of microfinance industry players (lenders, investors, networks, and foundations), who came ...
  3 days ago

• NEWS WIRE: Fiji: Reserve Bank Preparing Banks for Requirement to Offer Microfinance

  
  MicroCapital.org — Authority: 145
  Source: Fiji Times . Complete article available online. SUVA, Fiji, November 06 - Reserve Bank of Fiji governor Sada Reddy, at the Medium Term Strategy for Financial Inclusion in Fiji, said… “From January next year banks will have to have a microfinance unit. Banks have to change their minds about this. ...
  4 days ago

• [the africa diaries] day seven: wrapping up business in kenya

  
  BibleDude.net — Authority: 108
  [the africa diaries] day seven: wrapping up business in kenya She walked up to me as I was setting up for my morning session, shook my hand, and simply stated, “I am Alice.” We laughed about that for a moment, but I never realized that this was about to be one of the most powerful moments of this trip for me. ...
  4 days ago

• I might be falling for microfinance.

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  Alana Solimeo, KF9, Costa Rica I realized after letting the excitement of Kiva, Costa Rica, and research topics (exhibited in previous post Rice, Beans and an Inspired Hypothesis) settle that I might want to take a step back.  The thing is I hit the ground running here, thanks to the great work of my ...
  5 days ago

• The Global Access Gap

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  Our recent Financial Access 2009  has the latest and most comprehensive dataset for financial inclusion. It allows us to field some interesting questions, such as: What is the big picture in terms of worldwide financial access? Here is what we found. Globally, there are lots of accounts… We estimate that there ...
  6 days ago

• The Most Beautiful Client Interview (Part 1 of 2)

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Eva Wu, KF9 Philippines I experienced a lot of firsts during my week in the field visiting HSPFI ’s Camiguin Branch. Some good, some intense, all of it exciting. Amongst all these firsts, I’m convinced that I witnessed on Camiguin Island both the most beautiful and the most bizarre client interviews that ...
  6 days ago

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