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Majority of Microfinance Beneficiaries are Women
AMMAN - Vast majority of loans for micro projects in Jordan were extended to female entrepreneurs over the past few years, a recent study showed Sunday. According to the Arab Microfinance Regional Report, launched yesterday, women borrowers for micro projects represented over 70 per cent of total people who had access to micro credit facilities. Experts from lending institutions expected the trend of funding schemes run mainly by women to continue in the coming years. During...
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Jeffery Sachs, Video Games and Social Change
Sachs recently discussed rapid economic convergence, or the ability of developing countries to narrow the income gap by absorbing technologies available from developed countries. Some have suggested that video gamers, who simulate life experiences while honing decision-making, could constitute a major untapped resource to assist in that mission.
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Creation Investments Closes Global MFI Fund at $32M
Creation Investments Social Ventures Fund I, a global microfinance-focused private equity fund, has made a final close at $31.8 million. The fund is now eyeing investments in Asia, besides Latin America and Eastern Europe. The Fund’s investor base includes 74 US and European institutional investors along with family offices and high net worth individuals. Creation Investments Capital Management, LLC, is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The fund has till date deployed half of this...
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Friday Roundup – 1/14/11: Reflecting on Enteprise and Disaster Recovery
Let me try to build an argument starting from two seemingly unrelated ends.The first end is Brazil, which has been prominent on the NextBillion agenda this week, and particularly the unavoidable discussion of economic inequality that follows any conversation about the country.
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NetSuite Donates Cloud Services to Social Enterprises
NetSuite , the SaaS business management solution vendor, is a publicly traded and profitable corporation. But NetSuite has a softer side, too - specifically, NetSuite.org, the company’s corporate citizenship program that gives away NetSuite subscriptions for free to social enterprises. That is, enterprises, both non-profit and otherwise, who use market forces to achieve a soci...
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Announcing NextBillion Brasil
We are pleased to announce the NextBillion network will expand next week with the addition of NextBillion Brasil, which is set to launch on Jan. 17. Like NextBillion and NextBillion Espanol, the new site will chronicle innovations at the BoP. It will also serve as a hub for discussion, a place to exchange ideas, to find resources, and to network.
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Notes from the Recent Meeting of Base of the Pyramid Experts in Barcelona (Part 2)
Guest Writer Pablo S?nchez offers a summary of the Base of the Pyramid summit held recently in Barcelona with the participation of experts and practitioners from several international organizations.
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Notes from the Recent Meeting of Base of the Pyramid Experts in Barcelona (Part 1)
Pablo Sanchez offers a summary of the Base of the Pyramid summit held recently in Barcelona with the participation of experts and practitioners from several international organizations.
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