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• ACCION USA – About Our Loans

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 148
  Learn about ACCION USA loans and how we can help your small business grow.
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• Bangladesh: microfinance agencies enable entrepreneurs to provide more sanitation technology options

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 130
  Over the last five years in Bangladesh, more than 90 million people have moved away from open defecation. While 88 percent of the population now have access to, and are using latrines, ensuring the quality and sustainability of these latrines is crucial. Without ready access to micro-credit and in the absence of well ...
  1 week ago

• Bangladesh: microfinance agencies enable entrepreneurs to provide more sanitation technology options

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 133
  Over the last five years in Bangladesh, more than 90 million people have moved away from open defecation. While 88 percent of the population now have access to, and are using latrines, ensuring the quality and sustainability of these latrines is crucial. Without ready access to micro-credit and in the absence of well ...
  1 week ago

• getting there

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Shereef Zaki, KF9, Perú Cultural issues surrounding privacy can be one of Kiva’s biggest challenges regarding implementation in the field. Not everyone wants their photo publicized and many hold suspicions when it comes time to sign a waiver. But I think the biggest challenge for Kiva is far more prosaic. The ...
  1 week ago

• Women for Women International Microcredit program in Bosnia and Herzegovina

  
  chocobaby.luv.ph — Authority: 157
  Women turn microcredit loans into thriving businesses. www.womenforwomen.org Redefining what it means to be a businesswoman, their loans not only helped them rebuild after war but they now employ other women and impact entire communities. Learn more about how we are changing the world one woman at a time at ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Stockpile of Dollars: How to Deploy Kiva Funding

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  by Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru With a significant new source of funding comes considerable responsibility and opportunity for those who represent the funds at the local MFIs (aka the Kiva Fellows).  One of the most exciting privileges about working at a brand new pilot partner is the opportunity to influence how Kiva is ...
  2 weeks ago

• T-Shirt and Microcredit

  
  Nich Blog Experience — Authority: 106
  Looking at the title, I think everyone would be asking about that last word of “microcredit” and what it has to do with a T-Shirt.I’ve just learned this new concept just now, when I receive a new email from teextile (one of my favorite site where T-Shirt meet great design). They introduce to a new [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Microlending: Panacea or Patchwork?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 629
  Microlending has been hailed as the panacea of poverty.  They theory is simple:  lend the poor a small amount of money so they can start/grow their business, charge tiny interest rates (microcredit), then once business starts booming, the borrowers can easily pay the loan.  Woosh! Just like that, poverty ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kiva Turning Four

  
  The San Franista — Authority: 425
  Microcredit organizations’ efforts, GOOD Magazine and the Berkeley co-working center HUB Bay Area are no strangers to TheSanFranista posts, so I’ll get right to the point–international (and now domestic) lender Kiva.org is celebrating their fourth anniversary on November 3. The $20 tickets for the party at ...
  3 weeks ago

• In search of Kiva’s highest microloan

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Adam, KF9, Bolivia. Kiva’s website provides a wealth of statistics for curious lenders, but one unfortunate and disappointingly uncontroversial omission is the altitude at which the loan was disbursed. With the average borrower living at 4,150 m (13,615 ft) above sea level, I’d be willing to bet that Pro Mujer ...
  3 weeks ago

• Premières impressions à Santo Domingo

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  For English version, click on “read the rest of this entry”, then scroll down. « La République Dominicaine est un pays aux couleurs vives, musiques et danses irrésistiblement entraînantes et climat tropical» .Voici la seule image que j’étais capable de me figurer, en attendant mon avion à ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Microcredit Can Break the Cycle of Poverty

  
  Ending Extreme Poverty in the Congo — Authority: 425
  Most Congolese do not want an handout.  Most of them will offer to sell you an artifact.  However, heres the problem.  Most artifacts are not produced in enough quantity to break the cycle of poverty.  So, the artist needs to sell it a higher price.  Eventually, he prices himself or herself out of the market. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Portfolios of the Poor – a great new book

  
  From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green — Authority: 511
  Portfolios of the Poor gave me the same feeling of excitement as the World Bank’s epic ‘ Voices of the Poor ’ study. Both of them are the fruit of intense scrutiny of the real lives of poor people that uncovers insights and destroys stereotypes. Poor people are most definitely not financial illiterates, but ...
  3 weeks ago

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