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• Microfinance is Growing Up

  
  The Discomfort Zone — Authority: 106
  Nicholas Kristof at the NYT writes about two studies evaluating the impact of microfinance on poverty, enterprise, and socio-economic development. These studies originally came out earlier this summer , discussing the activities of Spandana in India ( full report ), and First Macro Bank in the Philippines ( full ...
  5 days ago

• Peru: US$150,000 in microcredit provide sanitation access to thousands

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 126
  The Creating Sanitation Markets or Alternative Pro-poor Sanitation Solutions (APSS) in Peru Initiative has reached a new milestone, allocating over US$150,000 in credit towards improved sanitation for people otherwise ineligible for commercial loans. A recent Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) market research ...
  1 week ago

• Kiva 2009: Dont Give Money, Loan It

  
  FromDC2Iowa — Authority: 117
  December 25, 2009, 6:10 a.m. The Charitable Gift That Literally Keeps on Giving . . . and Costs You Nothing This is the season of giving. This year its also the season of recession. Weve given the Salvation Army bell ringers 7% less than last year, the organization reports. Other charities are suffering similar ...
  1 week ago

• Day Six: Old Friends and Off to the Airport

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 114
  My last day in the country was on the beginning of the Bangladeshi weekend – Friday.  That meant somewhat less traffic, a blessing to be sure.  I spent the three hours, starting at 10am, with my former research assistant, Abdul Mannan Talukdar.  He is the first Area Manager in the history of Grameen who started ...
  2 weeks ago

• Day Three: Grameen Villages – Back to Kholshi via Narandia

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 114
  Microfinance Client Shaheeda Begum After a delicious Bengali breakfast of vegetables and paratha, I began a field trip that would ultimately bring me to Kholshi, where I did most of the research for my book Small Loans, Big Dreams.  But first I asked to see a Grameen Bank center meeting, to see how the process has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Does Microcredit Squeeze out the Moneylender?

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 111
  According to Grameen and others, microcredit should reduce poor people’s need to use moneylenders, who are widely (though perhaps not always correctly) regarded as exploiters.  Microcredit is booming in India. But a December 15 article in the Wall Street Journal reports that the number of moneylenders is growing ...
  3 weeks ago

• A gift that gives twice

  
  Inside the artisan — Authority: 129
  Its been great to see that Ive had quite a few sales through the non-profit group Nest this season. When someone buys through their site, not only are they buying a gift for someone (or themselves), but the artist also donates a proportion of the sales money to Nest - so it becomes a gift that gives twice! The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Micro-credit programmes beat global meltdown: Muhammad Yunus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Microcredit programmes were able to weather the global meltdown as compared to the big conventional banks that were on the verge of collapse, Nobel laureate and noted economist Muhammad Yunus said here Wednesday.“While big conventional banks with all their collateral were collapsing, ...
  4 weeks ago

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