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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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06.27.2013
|The growth of micro-finance in Lebanon
In Lebanon, it is very difficult to get a loan to start his business without collateral (a piece of land, for example) through traditional banking networks. The poorest population was long ...
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06.18.2013
|The barometer of social finance increases!
French people have a particular interest in solidarity savings products . It appeared 30 years ago with the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD) to provide capital for ...
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06.12.2013
|Money transfer via MFI’s: a reality?
For example, some MFIs partners of MicroWorld offer to its clients various types of products such asSAMIC with microsavings or MicroCred Senegal with micro-insurrance ( detailed article on the ...
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05.30.2013
|The new rise of Microfinance in Cambodia
The microfinance sector in Asian countries experienced a difficult crisis in 2010-2011. This crisis, in part due to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) which have applied too high interest rates, has ...
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05.07.2013
Microcredit : Towards women's emancipation ?
Throughout the world 190 million people hold a microloan. More important,80% of them are women. To explain this phenomenon Arnaud Ventura, cofounder of PlaNet Finance bring us more ...
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04.17.2013
|What is islamic Microfinance ?
Islamic Microfinance is a sector with a great potential to expand. It is estimated that 72% of the population living in predominantly Muslim countries do not use financial services, because they ...
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04.16.2013
Who is ACAD ?
What is ACAD ? ACAD (Arab Center for Agricultural Development) is a Microfinance Institution (MFI) established to encourage entrepreneurship through micro-income generating activities in ...
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04.09.2013
|Do you know C2C ?
The reinvention of industrial processes to produce clean solutions and create an industry where "everything is reused – either returned to the soil as nontoxic ‘biological nutrients,’ or returned ...
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