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01.24.2012
| |Peruvian microfinance comes to Brazil
Brazil is going through an economic boom and can count on an influx of workers from neighbouring countries including Peru and Bolivia. Many Peruvian immigrants work in sweat-shops under precarious ...
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01.24.2012
| |A microcredit fund for “young” 45-year olds
Up to what age do we stay young? In Europe, according to the European Commission’s latest euro-survey, the end of youth starts at 37 for the Swedes and the Maltese but begins at 50 for Greeks and ...
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01.24.2012
| |Switzerland represents a quarter of the world’s private microfinance
27% -- that’s the share of private global microfinance funds that Swiss companies manage or are consultants for. According to a recent study jointly authored by
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01.24.2012
| |The UN calls on “energy plus”
While a report entitled “Towards an ‘Energy Plus’ Approach for the Poor”.
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01.20.2012
| |Babeo – an overall approach for Malagasy micro-entrepreneurs
Since January 2011, PlaNet Finance has been coordinating a programme codenamed Babeo, aimed at entrepreneurs in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. Altogether, over three years, 1,500 women ...
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01.12.2012
| |Microfinance and the environment – an alliance to be fulfilled
Two kinds of “green” microcredit
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01.12.2012
| |Songhaï Centre: agricultural training for African micro-entrepreneurs
In Benin, the
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01.12.2012
| |Lady Gaga and Bieber – the most generous stars in 2011
According to the water.org.
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01.12.2012
| |Esther Duflo: “When you’re rich, you’re protected”
At the release of her latest book Poor Economics in French Repenser la pauvreté, written along with her MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) colleague Abhijit V. Banerjee, the economist
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01.12.2012
| |Google grants 250,000 dollars to the Vittana student microcredit site
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