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Building Social Capital Through Micro-Finance: A Perspective on the Growth of Micro-Finance Sector With Special Reference to India

This paper is based on the premise that poverty has its own culture. Social system and subsystems of this culture are built on exploitation. The rich are exploiting the poor by putting them into a debt-trap of money-lending system. This system exists everywhere in the world wherever poverty exists. The...

Tags: poverty, financial

White papers 2004-06-29

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Sogeti Group wins 2008 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Corporate Citizenship for its work with PlaNet Finance

Business Partner contributes expertise to help alleviate poverty DAYTON, Ohio -- Sogeti Group, a leading international provider of professional IT services, has been named winner of the 'Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Initiative', an IBM Beacon award for 2008, for its work with PlaNet Finance. PlaNet Finance is an international...

Articles 2008-05-07

Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c90306) has announced the addition of "Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World" to their offering. Micro-financing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. It can...

Articles 2008-04-29

IFMR Announces Summer Internship Programme for Total Immersion Program in Finance and Development 2008

IFMR Trust to Award USD 5000 to the Best Intern CHENNAI, India, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR http://www.ifmr.ac.in/), a leading business school based in Chennai, has announced Summer Internship for Total Immersion Program in Finance and Development (TIP/FD) 2008. The best...

Articles 2008-04-17

IFMR Trust and Grameen Capital India Reduce Cost of Capital for an Emerging Micro Finance Institution Through a Structured Transaction

A Huge Securitisation Deal in the Microfinance Sector for an Agricultural Loan Portfolio CHENNAI, India -- IFMR Trust (www.ifmrtrust.co.in) has provided credit protection in the form of a guarantee to a portfolio of agricultural loans originated by BISWA Bharat Integrated Social Welfare Agency, an MFI in Orissa. The...

Articles 2008-04-07

Ghana cocoa gets a boost

Agriculture Cadbury has promised to invest $87m over the next decade to support high-quality sustainable cocoa output from around the world. Ghana, as the world's second largest producer and Cadbury's biggest supplier, will receive more than 70% of the funds, which will be disbursed by the Cadbury...

Articles 2008-03-01

Microfinance Institution ASA International Secures Largest Equity Capital Commitment Ever to Microfinance

NEW YORK -- Catalyst Microfinance Investors ("CMI") announced today that it has achieved its final private closing with total capital commitments of US$ 125 million (EU86 million) from leading international institutional and private investors such as, amongst others, the Dutch pension fund, ABP, and US investor financial services organization, TIAA-CREF....

Articles 2008-02-12

India; economic empowerment of women

India; economic empowerment of women. Ed. by V.S. Ganesamurthy. New Century Pub. Delhi 2007 251 pages $38.50 Hardcover HQ1744 Ganesamurthy (economics, Sri Vasavi College, India) collects 33 papers exploring different aspects of the economic...

Articles 2008-02-01

eBay launches microlending website

SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world and get a return on their money. Unlike micro-finance organizations that make interest-free loans to people in developing countries, Microplace.com offers investors profits...

Articles 2007-12-26

Backpacking with Hill Shepherds ; On a trek in the Garhwal Himalayas, BT's Anusha Subramanian comes back with lessons in micro-financing and community-owned tourism.

NOVEMBER 5, 2007 Lata Village, Niti Valley It started off as my much-awaited trek in the Garhwal Himalayasand turned into an impressive first-hand account of a small, yetsmart, initiative. The setting: Nanda Devi Sanctuary Trek againstthe backdrop of the spectacular 7,816-metre Nanda Devi peak. But first, a peek into...

Articles 2007-12-16

Sweden's Investment AB Kinnevik finances African micro finance company

NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-15 October 2007-Sweden's Investment AB Kinnevik finances African micro finance companyC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Swedish investor Investment AB Kinnevik said on Monday (15 October) that it has financed the African micro finance company Bayport with USD14m. The financing is provided as a...

Articles 2007-10-15

Money and schooling for micor-loans

With help from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Community Capital Resources CCR is on track to issue more microloans in 2007 than ever before. Earlier this year, CCR was designated the Small Business Administration's SBA micro-lender for Westchester, giving it access to an additional $3 million in federal money...

Articles 2007-10-15

F&C Stewardship range to include banks and insurers.

F&C Investments has received approval for its Stewardship range to widen its investment universe to include responsible financial institutions. The AGBP3.5bn range of funds previously only had limited access to the sector, mainly through mortgage banks. Managers may now...

Articles 2007-09-24

Pro Mujer Celebrates Service to Over 1 Million Women and Their Families

Western Union CEO Honored for Commitment to Latin America ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Pro Mujer, a development organization providing Latin America's poorest women with micro-finance, business training and healthcare support, today announced it will honor Western Union President, CEO and Director Christina Gold, as Pro Mujer Woman of the...

Articles 2007-09-17

J&C Pacific signs MOU with Public Bank

J&C PACIFIC Sdn Bhd, an Applications Service Provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU with Public Bank Bhd to make available loan facilities amounting up to RM50 million to aspiring entrepreneurs of J&C Pacific's entrepreneurship initiative called the Malaysian Independent Business Ownership MIBO Programme. The MOU,...

Articles 2007-08-16

CHINA DEVELOPMENT BANK TO FURTHER BOOST MICRO-LOAN SERVICE

AsiaInfo Services07-03-2007China Development Bank to Further Boost Micro-loan ServiceBEIJING, Jul 03, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- China Development Bank, one of the three policy banks in the country, will further boost micro-financing business so as to provide fast and effective financial services for small and medium companies.Lending money to small...

Articles 2007-07-03

Soko Tele: Plugging a gap others cannot reach

An innovative way of sending money to relatives in rural areas has been launched in Kenya. Celtel, the pan-African mobile phone company with the largest footprint in Africa and operations in 15 countries, is renowned for some of the continent's most progressive corporate social responsibility programmes. One...

Articles 2007-07-01

WOCCU Reps Assess Solomon Is.

Brian Branch, the chief operating officer for the World Council of Credit Unions WOCCU in Madison, Wis., visited these islands to assess damage caused by a recent tsunami and to identify how WOCCU and the Credit Union Federation of Australia CUFA might help credit unions rebuild. Both WOCCU and CUFA...

Articles 2007-05-28

Bankers lend hand to Rwanda: trio from Little Rock organize African country's first bank merger.(Banking & Finance)

THREE LITTLE ROCK BANKERS have put their high-profile jobs in Arkansas' financial arena on hold to launch a micro-financing company in Rwanda as part of a larger ministry to which they feel called. Dale Dawson of Stephens Inc., Dabbs Cavin of Summit Bank and...

Articles 2007-04-30

Power Of Change, The

This article, which was adopted from a speech by Ms. Van Genderen, reviews some important aspects pertaining to MDG 3, Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women. The article focuses on the global inequalities between men and women and what can be changed. The European Union's policy and the micro finance...

Articles 2007-04-01