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Tanzania: NMB Launches New Product to Ease Services to Customers
August, 30 2013
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - National Microfinance Bank (NMB) has launched special institutional and notice investment accounts, a new product which will provide customers with simplified banking services coupled with more benefits of using financial facilities
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A Boost for Microfinance in the Arab World
August, 29 2013
MENA - As the World Bank MENA financial sector flagship report points out, the microfinance sector in the region is still small. Microcredit accounts for just 0.2 percent of the region’s Gross Domestic Product. Lending by microfinance providers reaches only 1.8 percent of the adult population, half the rate of South Asia or Latin America and the Caribbean
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The Synergy Potential of Financial and Energy Inclusion
August, 28 2013
Global - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently called upon the international community to commit to a new groundbreaking initiative seeking Sustainable Energy for All (SE4A) by the year 2030. At MicroEnergy International (MEI) we have been working towards this goal since 2002 by supporting microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the process of developing and providing "green microloans"
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The Consequences of Impact Investing on Philanthropy
August, 27 2013
Global - As the investment culture expands from simply the bottom line of profit to an increased focus on the triple bottom line (social, environment and profit), philanthropy will continue to be an essential catalyst in unlocking the potential of impact investing
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Ghana: State to Support Micro-finance Firms
August, 26 2013
Ghana - The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Seth Tekper, has called for micro finance institutions to be included in the support framework of the Export Development and Agriculture Investment Fund (EDAIF), in order to widen the pool of funds available to micro finance companies to source capital for onward lending to micro enterprises
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Financial Inclusion Now
August, 21 2013
Malyasia - Oppressive, blanket regulation, which may be necessary in complex and unpredictable financial markets, may not be relevant in a rural community – or, worse, it may stifle efforts to promote financial inclusion
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India: Cure the Disease, Don’t Kill Patients
August, 21 2013
India - While the ban on microfinance was initiated by policymakers in Andhra Pradesh under the claim that this would help poor people, it seems to have done the opposite.
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Nigeria: CBN Launches N220b MSME Fund, To Disburse at 9%
August, 16 2013
Nigeria - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) finally launched the much awaited N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Fund yesterday, saying it would disburse the money at interest rate of no more than nine per cent per annum to microfinance banks for on-lending to the micro and small businesses
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Is Microfinance Losing Its Appeal?
August, 16 2013
Global - People shouldn't lose faith in microfinance but rather seek to improve the industry and protect the poor from potential exploitation (exorbitant interest rates).
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Cambodia: Sathapana Borrows $15m for Micro Loans
August, 15 2013
Cambodia - Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) Sathapana Limited will receive $15 million in loans to provide additional support to small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which make up the vast majority of the country’s businesses
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Paul Brest & Kelly Born: When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?
August, 15 2013
Global - This article is addressed to impact investors who wish to know whether their investments will actually contribute to achieving their social or environmental (hereafter, simply “social”) objectives. We introduce three basic parameters of impact: enterprise impact, investment impact, and nonmonetary impact.
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Bangladesh Denies Plan to Take Over Grameen Bank
August, 08 2013
Bangladesh - The Bangladesh government said it won’t take control of micro-lender Grameen Bank, unexpectedly going against a government commission that recommended it raise its stake in the company
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India: Private Equity Funds to Buy Stake in Janalakshmi Financial Services for Rs 350 Crore
August, 08 2013
India - A consortium of private equity (PE) funds including Tata Capital's PE fund and Morgan Stanley Global Private Equity will pick up a significant minority stake in urban microlender Janalakshmi Financial Services for close to Rs 350 crore, signaling confidence in the long-term potential of the microfinance industry after being shattered by the financial crisis in Andhra Pradesh
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Nigeria: Achieving Vision 20-2020 Through Financial Inclusion
August, 04 2013
Nigeria - By the year 2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria hopes to have included 80 per cent of its adult population in the financial sector, both formal and informal, with all of them having access to one financial service or the other. This is one of the goals of the Vision 20-2020 of the country which aims at putting Nigeria in the list of the top 20 economies in the world
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Asset Transfers for (Pre-) Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Chile
August, 01 2013
Chile - The original theory of microcredit was that it offered the opportunity for poor households to create profitable microenterprises. But there were always households left behind—those that were too poor to create a microenterprise or plausibly repay even the very small loans on offer.
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