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09.11.2013
|A pilot program to improve the living standards of the poor in Peru
The "Peru Graduation Pilot" set up in one of the ten regions supported by the program of the CGAP-Ford Foundation, aims to understand and improve the standard of living and access to finance of ...
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09.04.2013
What is responsible finance ?
Is it responsible when a financial co-operative tells its clients that their loan’s interest rates are “only 3%” (without mentioning that this price is per month, is calculated on a flat basis, ...
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08.19.2013
What lessons can we learn from the Moroccan microfinance crisis?
How did the crisis start? Let make a few steps back to understand how and why this microcredit sector crisis began in Morocco. Since its start in the late 1990s, the Moroccan microcredit ...
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08.13.2013
What is the measuring tool MIMOSA ?
When you hear the word "Mimosa," you might immediately think of the yellow flower. But now the MIMOSA - the Microfinance Index of Market Outreach and Saturation - become useful to financial ...
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08.07.2013
How MFIs manage natural disasters?
Many MFIs currently operate in countries particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, and must cope with the constraints they imply. Before the disaster : emergency plan and anticipation ...
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07.31.2013
|Microfinance in Europe : A solution for the crisis ?
In a debate organized by the Microfinance Club of Paris, supported by the Convergence Group, several speakers from microfinance sector tried to make an assessment of the current state of ...
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07.24.2013
|New Models in International Remittances and Branchless Banking
CGAP and Dalberg Global Development Advisors (strategic firm) just finished the third update of their studies about international remittances through branchless banking (internet, mobile ...
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07.16.2013
|What is the BoP ?
As you probably figured it out, the BoP and practices that are inspired, are developed in emerging countries and refer to the billions of people located on the first level of the economic pyramid ...
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07.10.2013
|Towards the end of poverty?
Harry Truman said in 1949 that "more than half of the people in the world live in conditions close to misery" . Today their number has decreased by half a percentage compared to the total ...
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07.03.2013
|Women and Microfinance in Middle-East
Nearly thirty years ago, the initial motivation for microfinance was gender neutral. Particularly poor women, who have proven to be responsible borrowers, benefit from microfinance.
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