Once upon a time, microloans were primarily for entrepreneurs who lived in economically disadvantaged communities or were considered part of underserved.
Concrete Floors and the Digital Ceiling Building MicroFinance Banking MIS in Chile. 26 August 2010. By Lorena Gil, KF12, Fondo Esperanza Chile. GENERAL MENU OF MisFE. I am not a computer wiz at all, so when Kiva asked the fellows …
Microfinance Focus, August 26, 2010: MicroSave, one of the leading International consulting, capacity building and research organizations has agreed to join.
Accion is one of the largest and most respected microfinance organizations in the World. Formerly, Aba held positions in the Treasury Department at Barclays Bank, Ghana and in the Finance Department at Newmont Gold. …
This prompted the formation of micro-insurance program in areas where there are substantial number of cooperatives and microfinance institutions. These institutions, pooling the resources of the poor have mobilized resources that can …
While SKS Microfinance, India’s first MFI firm to hit the public markets, delivered a bumper harvest to its investors (Sequoia Capital made a part-exit), the real winners could be its employees who have seen some real money by encashing …
As part of their learning experience, I invited Pankajam, one of the beneficiaries of Kudumbashree, the innovative microfinance program in South India, to tell us her story. Pankajam comes from tribal India. Tribal people are truly at …
Many were shocked by the very idea about how a microfinance company could nurture hopes of capitalistic gains. Microfinance is viewed like an activity of an NGO it has to be selfless and for no profits and hence an IPO was outrightly …
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A World Bank offshoot, the International Finance Corporation (IFCA) has launched a new Pacific microfinance program. A $12.3 million project will try to provide funding to microfinance organisations in Papua New Guinea, East Timor and …
