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04.24.2014
Financial inclusion: a challenge for developing and developed countries
The link between financial inclusion and social inclusion Financial inclusion is a component of social inclusion (population access to basic services such as employment, health, housing or ...
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04.16.2014
How is the French social economy in 2014?
The social economy public interest is growing One in three French has heard of social entrepreneurship, 64% of the social economy. Over 7% compared to 2013. A positive evolution also noted by ...
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04.03.2014
Is lowering the interest rate cap in Africa really beneficial to the development of microfinance?
Therefore, UEMOA has recently reduced the maximum interest rate that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can apply in order to protect consumers. However, this measure does not seem to be without ...
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03.31.2014
Microinsurance: between progress and future challenges
This one of the questions Craig Churchill, Head of the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility, tried to answer by studying the increasing value and viability of this assurance mechanism for ...
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03.25.2014
SAMIC MFI organizes health, social and business trainings in Cambodia
By starting as credit program of an NGO named CHC (Cambodian Health Committee) in 1994, SAMIC has contributed, so far so good, in the improving of financial access of many rural and poor people in ...
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03.04.2014
The strong development of actors in mobile micro-insurance
There are five different business models in mobile micro-insurance: 1. Insurers that target new segments, especially with low revenus, thanks to new products developped for the mass market. ...
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01.23.2014
Equality and Sustainability to End Poverty in the World
Most experts agree on the subject; it is clearly not only a question of growth, although growth, of course, is essential to fight against poverty. For example, China has been able to bring more ...
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12.24.2013
When Energy Inclusion Helps to Alleviate Poverty
Address a new market If you were part of this summit which held in the Philippines last October, then you may have heard S. Groh reveal that there are an estimated 1.6 billion people who do not ...
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12.16.2013
When microcredit facilitates access to on-site sanitation
A new ray of hope It is a fact, funding sanitation systems that meet Western standards represents a huge investment for developing countries. But, we know the importance and the need to ...
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11.29.2013
The City of London step into Islamic finance
As the British Prime Minister David Cameron said at the World Islamic Economic Forum: "Our ambition is now to go even further". Moreover, he highlights the fact that "London is already tapping on ...
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