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- Claims about Microfinance Unrealistic and Overstated: Mass Credit Is Not the Key to Economic Growth
- To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: Nicole Kurokawa, +1-202-218-4613, nkurokawa@cato.org, or Evans Pierre, +1-202-789-5204, epierre@cato.org; both of the Cato Institute WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Microfinance is praised as one of the best methods for lifting the world's poor out of poverty. But a new briefing paper from the Cato Institute casts doubt...
- Research articles 2007-02-15
- New Microfinance Technology to Aid Poor in Central America
- Lehigh University students, Honduras banking officials hoping to expedite loan transactions BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Lehigh University business students have developed a pair of technologies designed to make microfinance loans more accessible to small business owners and the working poor in Honduras. The Web-based tools have been developed in consultation...
- Research articles 2006-11-29
- Governance at heart of new World Bank assistance strategy for Bangladesh; Program envisages lending of up to $3 billion for next four years.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 March 2006-WORLD BANK: Governance at heart of new World Bank assistance strategy for Bangladesh; Program envisages lending of up to $3 billion for next four yearsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29032006 WASHINGTON - The new Country Assistance Strategy CAS for...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- UN chief calls on private business to boost finance for poor
- GENEVA AFP — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on mainstream private business and banking to get more involved in providing microfinance for the poor in developing countries. Annan told business and banking executives attending a meeting on microfinance in Geneva that there was a need to expand from...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- Retail Strategy: Microfinance Gains Momentum - Evidence Is Accumulating To Show That Microcredit Can Be A Profitable Business For Aommercial Banks. Stephen Timewell Reports On Progress In The International Year of Microfinance.
- For the 2.5 billion people from low-income countries and many of the 2.7 billion from middle-income countries, traditional banking services are largely unavailable. But while many people are not served by established banks, many low-income consumers are both willing and able to pay for services. And...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- UK representatives at the heart of new European Microfinance Network.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-21 October 2003-European Microfinance Network: UK representatives at the heart of new European Microfinance NetworkC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10212003 Two UK representatives were among the seven Directors appointed to the new European Microfinance Network EMN established at a meeting in...
- Research articles 2003-10-21
- Microfinance for Kids -- and Investment Bankers
- Microfinance for Kids -- and Investment BankersRE: Microfinance for Kids -- and Investment BankersThanks. It's a nice little book, too. My sons demanded multiple readings. I'm waiting for them to start asking for a small loan to buy a hen.RE: Microfinance for Kids -- and Investment BankersI loved the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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- Microfinance for Kids -- and Investment Bankers
- Can microfinance be the engine of the banking economy? It might sound laughable, but I'm thinking again after a breakfast meeting with Katie Smith Milway. She's the author of One Hen, a new book on microfinance for kids, and she told me about a recent event at Morgan Stanley, where...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Banking at the Base of the Pyramid: A Microfinance Primer for Commercial Banks
- Commercial banks have tremendous potential to service the microfinance market profitably. Branch networks, access to capital, and qualified human resources all provide banks with the fundamentals to launch and grow successful microfinance operations. Over the past decade, many banks have entered the microfinance market and several banks have recently shown...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Measuring Microfinance's Effectiveness
- A major issue for microcredit, one of the main efforts to fill the holes in market economics, is the lack of a consistent way to measure its impact. For instance, how many of the people who get microcredit are lifted out of poverty, for instance. Does it work as well...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Viewpoint: Microfinance Joins The Mainstream - In The International Year Of Microcredit, The UNDP's Mark Malloch Brown Encourages More Commercial Banks To Take Up Microfinance.
- Microfinance is helping to transform the lives of millions of people, helping to build businesses, create jobs and lift men, women and children out of poverty. It has a critical role to play in global development efforts, not least in achieving the i Microfinance is helping...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- New directions in the world of microfinance.
- Byline: Adam Mooney Feb 14, 2007 (Ethical Investor - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Over 100 million people around the world are reckoned to have benefited from microfinance, the provision of credit to the disadvantaged, since 1997. The number of those who defaulted on microfinance...
- Research articles 2007-02-14
- Microfinance program to provide new sources of funds for Tajikistan's poor.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 June 2003-ADB: Microfinance program to provide new sources of funds for Tajikistan's poorC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06262003 MANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank ADB will help regulate and expand Tajikistan's microfinance market through an assistance package approved...
- Research articles 2003-06-26
- ADB: Philippine Microfinance summit at ADB.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 August 1998-ADB: Philippine Microfinance summit at ADB C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:140898 The Coalition for Microfinance Standards, composed of 69 non-government organizations NGOs, banks, government and resource agencies, will hold a National Summit from 20 to 21 August 1998...
- Research articles 1998-08-14
- ADB: Women's microfinance meeting at ADB.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 August 1999-ADB: Women's microfinance meeting at ADB C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:060899 The Women's World Banking WWB Asia Regional Meeting and Best Practice Workshop for Microfinance Practitioners will be held at the Asian Development Bank ADB headquarters in Manila...
- Research articles 1999-08-09
- ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: ADB to prepare microfinance strategy.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 March 1999-ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: ADB to prepare microfinance strategy C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:150399 The Asian Development Bank has approved a regional technical assistance grant of US$400,000 to prepare a microfinance strategy. Microfinance - providing the poor...
- Research articles 1999-03-16
- Philippine microfinance project cited in fight against poverty.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 December 2001-ADB: Philippine microfinance project cited in fight against poverty C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03122001 MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- A Philippine microfinance project was cited as an example of an effective weapon against poverty during a national ...
- Research articles 2001-12-04
- Tempting institutions to microfinance.(John Monahan planning to launch microfinance company)(Brief article)
- Byline: Douglas Appell Looking for a calpers John Monahan doesn't expect a Nobel Prize, but the former INVESCO global partner is hoping to do well by doing good in the microfinance sector pioneered by 2006 Peace Prize recipient Mohammad Yunus. ...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- ADB OK's technical grant for microfinance strategy
- MANILA, March 15 Kyodo The Asian Development Bank ADB said Monday it has approved a regional technical assistance grant of 400,000 U.S. dollars to prepare a microfinance strategy to expand access of the poor to formal financial services. Microfinance, or providing the poor with loans, savings facilities...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Microfinance Institution ASA International Secures Largest Equity Capital Commitment Ever to Microfinance
- NEW YORK -- Catalyst Microfinance Investors ("CMI") announced today that it has achieved its final private closing with total capital commitments of US$ 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....
- Research articles 2008-02-12
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