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OPIC gives nod to provide $45 million to HabitatMicrofinance MonitorThe Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved $45 million to enable Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) to expand its housing microfinance lending (HMF) a growing impact investment sector [...]

NEW YORK, October 25, 2010 – The recent initial public offering (IPO) of SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution, for over $350 million dollars has sparked considerable debate within the microfinance industry about …

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Indian microfinance not sustainable: Bangladeshi practitionersEconomic TimesHYDERABAD: India's microfinance model is not sustainable due to its overdependence on the government, the huge subsidy given by the state and the lack of a regulatory framework to check the exploitation of the poor, sectoral practitioners from …and more »

Experiencing Microfinance in Ghana. By grameenfoundation. Kim Kerry-Tyerman is a volunteer for Grameen Foundation's Bankers without Borders initiative, based in Ghana and Kenya for eight weeks to help the BwB team …

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Indian microfinance not sustainable: Bangladeshi practitionersEconomic TimesHYDERABAD: India's microfinance model is not sustainable due to its overdependence on the government, the huge subsidy given by the state and the lack of a regulatory framework to check the exploitation of the poor, sectoral practitioners from …and more »

The Hub LA is excited to be a participating organization at the Yale Club of Southern California's event Empowering Women Through Microfinance. As a collaborative space aimed at uniting the social innovation community across …

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Central Bank sets N2bn for nationwide microfinance banksNEXTMicrofinance banks wising to operate in all the 36 states and Abuja would require N2 billion minimum capital. In the new policy framework released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), unit microfinance banks which shall have only …CBN [...]

Microfinance could be one solution.Climate change is one of the greatest challenges to development that the world has ever faced. According to the World Bank, mitigation of its effects in developing countries could cost …

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Feature: Microfinance and the achievement of the MDGsMyjoyonline.comMicrofinance still rides high on the agenda of governments, practitioners and international donors as an efficient tool with the ability to adequately help reduce the measure of extreme poverty that exit in most developing economies. …and more »

Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS), an Indian microfinance institution (MFI), has raised INR 65 crores (USD 14 million) through a third round of equity.

In the past weeks it organized the Fourth Microfinance Forum, in Panama, under the question: The end of golden [...]