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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formulaSmall Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to find a local branch office. But in these sparsely ...
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Microlending, From Bangladesh to the Boroughs - The New York Times > Business > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 6Microlending, From Bangladesh to the Boroughs The Grameen Bank is best known for its microloans to women in ...
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Microfinance Gateway>Open Up Your Virtual WalletWith the media hype surrounding Kiva.org and the recent launch of eBay's MicroPlace, the phenomenon of online microlending has taken off, creating a brand new virtual class of retail investors and lenders for microfinance institutions (MFIs) - perhaps changing the face of microfinance capital. H...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formulaSmall Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to find a local branch office. But in these sparsely ...
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Poverty News Blog: Forbes ranks the microcredit lendersThe story we linked to this morning on microcredit in Bosnia mentioned a Forbes ranking of microcredit lenders. This ranking was new to us, so we wanted to link to ...
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Cell phones: a platform for social innovation in emerging markets : The Inspired EconomistCell phones: a platform for social innovation in emerging markets Published on June 10th, 2009 The iPhone is not the only reason to be excited about mobile phone technology. Smart social entrepreneurs and like-minded investors would be smart to think about the breadth of opportunities that ...
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Transparency: Grameen Bank | GOODTransparency: Grameen Bank Founded in 1983 by Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Bank (Grameen is Bangledeshi for “village”) provides small loans to rural borrowers in Bangladesh. In the years since, the Bank has become so succesful (Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006),that a whole community of ...
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Microfinance and the credit crunch | Sub-par but not subprime | The EconomistFinance and economics Microfinance Lending to the poor has held up well but it is not as safe from the credit crisis as its champions hoped A GLOBAL credit crisis caused by subprime mortgages is hardly the ideal backdrop for a business making unsecured loans to poor people without a ...
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Grameen Bank | Banking for the poor - Small Loans, Significant ImpactThey are part of a nascent lending program created by Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Grameen Bank, which uses micro-loans to help eradicate poverty in developing nations. But these women are not in Bangladesh, they are in Queens. ...
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