Filed in archive Microfinance
by Miche on August 08, 2007
Okay so "barter" doesn't exactly sound like "butter" to most of you, but it does to me - I'm from the south. ...well, at least I thought it was funny. Anyways, I've...
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Filed in archive Microfinance
by Miche on May 06, 2007
If you're looking for a way to fund your next big idea, but have been coming up dry so far, you might want to look into social lending networks. Prosper.com publicly launched just over a year ago,...
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A few microfinance stories from the past week or so ... *The geometry of empowerment. *Pak-Ohman Bank extends reach in Pakistan. *A report on microfinance in Afghanistan.......
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Old news that he received the prize, but new news that he gave his acceptance speech in Oslo on the 10th, and a speech in Stockholm today. Here's coverage from the International Herald Tribune....
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There's a story from the Voice of America today about microfinance in Iraq. While not a cure-all, they seem to be helping in some areas. So if you want to see your money going toward rebuilding...
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According to Andrew Curry at The New Republic he will ... Yunus will be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his work this Sunday in Stockholm. The honor is proof that small-scale lending to "the...
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Did anyone else catch the microfinance program on PBS the other night? Small Fortunes? I thought it was a well done program, mainly since it wasn't just cheerleading microfinance, but giving...
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From the UN News Center: The work of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the microfinance banker and economist Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, offers rich and poor people one of the most simple...
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(Pic from the New Microfinance) Just a roundup of microfinance stories for your Saturday ... *There's always plenty to find at Microcapital if you weren't aware of it. See stories on the Asian...
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(Picture from Results.org) I'm not sure if I posted this article from The Nation about microfinance or not, but it's worth highlighting prominently here. I tend to agree with a lot of what the...
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(Photo from the Sydney Morning Herald) There have been all kinds of stories on Muhammed Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize since yesterday so I wanted to highlight some of the better or more...
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No doubt many of you have heard about Muhammed Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize today, it's been all over the airwaves. This is a great boost to the visibility of microfinance and microcredit...
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(Picture from World Concern) Story from the Financial Express: The United Kingdom (UK) will extend Tk 5.0 billion (Tk 500 crore) in aid to help Bangladesh scale up its microlending programmes,...
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(Photo from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) The Private Sector Development Blog points us today to this story from Microcapital about independent research firm Celent's prediction that the...
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A good interview with Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance in Hyderabad, at The Tribune India: He has been named by Time magazine as one of 'The People Who Shape Our World' for 2006. Vikram...
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(Picture from the UN) While most everyone in the field of social entrepreneurship and interenational development seems high on the benefits of microfinance, there are other views. I stumbled across...
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(Picture from GTZ) Here are a number of links to microcredit resources in the USA that I've been holding for a while, but wasn't sure what to do with. Often when we think of microfinance we...
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(From the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance) Not that it left our minds entirely, but we haven't put up much lately about microfinance isssues. So today's post concentrates on microfinance,...
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(Photo from the UN Capital Development Fund) Clearing out some of my links on microfinance stories here today. *First, from the PSD Blog, a note on a story from the Wall Street Journal over the...
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(Photo from the World Bank) I've been slowly gathering links on microfinance and in that process I started to wonder how defined those words 'microfinance' and 'microcredit' and...
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(Photo from ID21 Insights) A very good place for finding case studies, for those not aware of it, is Case Place. The only problem with the service is that quite a few cases are not available, meaning...
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