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Francisco Noguera, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
Guest blogger Sofia Leon is currently the Senior Program Coordinator at the Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International. Her passion is sustainable social enterprise, specifically seeking to scale BOP energy delivery without subsidies. By Sofia Leon Following an all-star Opening Plenary , I walked upstairs at the 2008 Clinton Global...
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Oct 09, 2008
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Francisco Noguera, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
By Elizabeth Malkin For months, the fellowship of institutions providing microfinancing has been angrily divided over the actions of one of its own. Compartamos, a fast-growing Mexican bank, went public in April 2007 and sold $468 million in shares on the Mexican stock market and gave the cash to its investors....
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Oct 07, 2008
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Rob Katz, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
By Dan Gross What the world needs right now is more subprime lending—a lot more of it. Yes, I know that in the public imagination, subprime lending is the scourge responsible for crippling the U.S. financial system. The massive extension of credit to people who lacked extensive credit histories and documented...
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Sep 23, 2008
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Francisco Noguera, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
ACCION International has been instrumental in the rise and mainstreaming of microfinance as a key component of bottom-up approaches to poverty alleviation. It has played a key role in promoting thriving organizations that are bringing financial services to the poor. Under the leadership of prominent figures like Maria Otero and Michael...
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Sep 19, 2008
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Rob Katz, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
By Lily Huang In Tajikistan, Georgetown graduate student Dan Zuckerman is the face of Kiva, a San Francisco-based microlending organization operating in a region that currently hums with nearly 3,000 Kiva-sponsored entrepreneurs. Zuckerman has to get to know them and act as their bridge to their remote lenders by sharing their...
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Sep 08, 2008
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Francisco Noguera, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
By Uwe Buse Microloans were invented to help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Now major banks and pension funds are getting into the business, as they discover that the interest paid by the poor can produce high returns. Is it aid or exploitation? Yunus has an opinion on almost...
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Aug 25, 2008
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Rob Katz, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
The Mexican micro-finance entity that raised $400 million from an IPO comes under fire for becoming the moneylender the micro-finance institutions were supposed to protect the poor from. A crimson and red screen lights up and a clutch of golden fish stream left and then right. This is the home page...
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Aug 25, 2008
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David Lehr, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
Last month, the Silicon Valley Microfinance Network cosponsored " Microfinance West : The Investment Opportunity Conference." This event, which brought together some of the leading commercial players in the microfinance field, was heavily geared towards institutional and retail investors in the financial community. The topics ran the gamut from attracting capital...
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Aug 08, 2008
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Joseph Bornstein, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
In the higgledy-piggledy streets of Bethelsdorp, a sprawling South African township once designated for people of mixed race, what at first glance appears to be a colourful new youth movement is gathering strength. Adherents sport blue T-shirts and baseball caps and lug brimming satchels. They roam the streets, knocking on the...
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Jul 23, 2008
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Rob Katz, NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - Microfinance
Like any business, base/bottom of the pyramid ventures fail - often. I have neither the space nor the inclination to list those I know of - besides, writers from Erik Simanis to Aneel Karnani to Anand K. Jaiswal have done some of the heavy lifting for me. We don't talk enough...
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