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07.29.2011
|Towards a socially responsible microfinance quality label?
A seal of excellence in microfinance Set up in April 2010 by the NGO and microfinance institution networks regrouped in the Microcredit Summit Campaign, the seal of microfinance, simply known ...
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07.29.2011
|How do social performance ratings work with microcredit?
Microfinance rating, which came into being at the end of the nineties, initially focused on financial criteria as well as institutional performance: debt and portfolio risk ratios, return on ...
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07.29.2011
|“Al Majmoua’s aim is to improve living conditions without discrimination.”
Who are Al Majmoua’s target clients? We don’t have target clients, although when we first started our target clients were groups of women based on the model developed by the Grameen Bank. But ...
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07.27.2011
|“In 2006, the Lebanese microfinance sector recovered from the war within 3 months”
In 2006, Israel launched an offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah: How did microfinance bear the shock?
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07.26.2011
|Microfinance in Lebanon: NGOs at the Forefront
A Sector Born in the Mid-nineties.
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07.07.2011
|Rody a dynamic loan officer in Fondesurco
He remembers seeing the loan officer job advertisement in his college, located in Yanque. He sent his resume to Fondesurco and two weeks later, after receiving an answer, travelled to Arequipa for ...
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07.01.2011
|PPI: evaluate poverty to better fight against it
At end 2010, the PPI was used in 27 countries by 73 MFIs. “The PPI is first used to check that the microfinance mission has been achieved”, explains the Grameen Foundation, an institution founded ...
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05.12.2011
|The Yunus affair: why he was ousted
On March 2, 2011, Muhammad Yunus, 70, was relieved of his duties as the managing director of the microlending institution he founded in 1983, on the grounds that he is over the mandatory ...
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04.18.2011
|PlaNet Guarantee et le GIIF s’associent pour lancer la première plateforme régionale microassurance agricole indicielle
While agriculture remains the main economic sector in West Africa (on average 30% of the GDP of countries in the region and 70% of the workforce), no risk management tool is offered to farmers to ...
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04.13.2011
|What is mobile banking?
In Europe, mobile banking is an extension of Internet banking – it allows customers to check their balances and do transactions. In developing countries, mobile banking meets different needs: the ...
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