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• Day Six: Old Friends and Off to the Airport

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Does Microcredit Squeeze out the Moneylender?

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Micro-credit programmes beat global meltdown: Muhammad Yunus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• African Development Bank to Support Establishment of Nigerian Micro Finance Bank

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 152
  The Resident Representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Country Office, Mr Herve Assan, says the bank will offer a $1 million grant to establish the AB Micro Finance Bank of Nigeria (ABN). Assan told journalists on Wednesday in Abuja that the grant was in line with the bank’s effort to empower the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cocaine: A Story That Begins in the Bolivian Jungle

  
  Uncornered Market — Authority: 116
  I need to fill up the tank completely. Finding gasoline in Chapare can be unreliable. It’s one of the ingredients in cocaine production – and that gets first priority. – Alvarro, our client and guide in Cochabamba, Bolivia explains why it’s necessary to gas up in the city before heading into the jungle. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Muhammad Yunus - Creating a World Without Poverty

  
  The Business Model Database (tbmdb.com) - A blog about business models — Authority: 122
  An inspirational presentation by Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi banker and economist, developer of the microcredit concept , founder of Grameen Bank awarded with the Nobel Peace Price, for "creating economic and social development from below". "We reverse what the traditional bank does. The basic principle of ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Kiva helps the poor deal with life’s uncertainties

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Adam Kemmis Betty, KF9 Bolivia Those frustrated with the health-and-safety of Europe and North America often celebrate the apparent appetite for risk in countries such as Bolivia, where you carry your machete into the local bar or cram a dozen people into the back of your car without fear of reprimand. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Philanthropy’s Place in Travel

  
  Where's the Travel Answer Man — Authority: 129
  Elevate Destinations has announced the launch of theme based donor travel for independent philanthropists interested in exploring and investing in issue-specific areas. The trips will focus on such issues as:. Coastal and marine preservation. Rainforest conservation. Cultural survival. Water scarcity. HIV/Aids ...
  5 weeks ago

• Microfinance – Does it really work?

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 159
  programs, and commercial banks like ABN AMRO, HSBC and Citicorp are rushing down-market, which could increase access to credit for the poor. Some 500 million poor worldwide have reportedly benefited from billion in micro-loans, which supporters want to ramp up to 0 billion. But its critics say there is no solid ...
  5 weeks ago

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