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11.30.2011
|Healthpoint clinic – an innovative solution for access to clean water
In Pallan in the Indian Punjab, villagers, their heads covered in traditional turbans, queue up on their bicycles to fill up their jerry cans with clean water in a “Healthpoint Clinic”. It costs ...
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11.30.2011
|Impact of land purchase on access to water in Africa is underestimated
In a growing number of African countries, such as Mali and Ethiopia, foreign companies are buying thousands of hectares of land, usually for monoculture for export (flowers, exotic fruit and fuel ...
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11.30.2011
|$3 million (micro)loan for solar panels in Central America
The
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11.25.2011
|Spain : Microloans help get a third of beneficiaries out of social and employment exclusion
In 2008, ICO, the Spanish Foundation, and Cajasol, an Andalusian savings bank, launched a pilot microloan scheme aimed at disadvantaged customers. Three years later, at a workshop organised by the ...
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11.25.2011
|750,000 dollars in microloans for Minnesota farmers
Microloans serving small farmers in poor countries – that makes sense. Now, microfinance for the poorest Americans, since the opening of a Grameen Bank subsidiary in New York in 2009, as well as
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11.25.2011
|Customer protection – Smart Campaign status
The
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11.25.2011
|Spain, capital of microfinance at the Microcredit Summit
The fifth Global Microcredit Summit was held in the Spanish city of Valladolid from 14 to 17 November. More than 1,600 participants from 106 countries took part over the four days and exchanged ...
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11.16.2011
|Learn the lessons of the Indian crisis from the Microcredit summit campaign 2012 report
Just before its 2011 summit meeting, which will take place in Valladolid, Spain in November, the
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11.16.2011
|Is over-indebtedness through microcredit a worldwide problem?
Is microcredit over-indebtedness a worldwide problem, Richard Rosenberg, a research advisor at the
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11.16.2011
|Solar panels on (micro)credit for equipping villages
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