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Micro credit: Good or bad for Uganda’s poor population?
The experts says the micro-credits are also geared mainly towards consumption and emergences rather than investments.
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- Financial Inclusion
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Seeking the Anti-Poverty Holy Grail: Can a ‘Trust Mark’ Boost Microfinance’s Social Impact?
In an effort to find which microfinance practitioners are most successfully alleviating poverty, Truelift – with the help of other microfinance rating agencies and technical experts – designed an assessment tool and beta-tested it on nine institutions around the world. The result, essentially, is a global “trust mark” for anti-poverty action. Organizers are looking for opportunities to use the tool to support assessment of a variety of service providers.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Machine Learning Meets Credit Scoring: How it Can Help Reduce Loan Delinquency Costs
Investment in predictive algorithms for credit scoring is a no-brainer for sophisticated digital financial service providers. Brick-and-mortar financial institutions that are just beginning to explore technology applications should follow suit, according to BFA, because credit scoring optimizes three business layers that improve the overall bottom line.
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- Financial Inclusion
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MetLife Foundation Is Proud to Present Its 2016 Annual Report
When MetLife Foundation launched our financial inclusion strategy in 2013, the financial inclusion industry was beginning to show that a well-coordinated global effort could produce impressive results. We saw that more than 2 billion people lacked access to formal financial services. But we also saw how steadily that gap was being closed.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Press Release: MicroVest Capital Management Passes $1 Billion Disbursement Mark
“We are very excited to have crossed the $1 billion threshold, something we feel clearly exemplifies the successful and sustainable character of our business. I would like to thank all our investors, partners, dedicated employees and Board Members that supported us throughout this journey, without whom it would have not been possible.” says Gil Crawford, CEO of MicroVest Capital Management, LLC.
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- Financial Inclusion
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The High Cost of ‘Data Darkness’ in the Developing World
The developing world is data dark, writes Tara Thiagarajan of Madura Microfinance; gathering even the most elementary data is a monumental task, requiring feet on the ground, paid employees and auditing systems. Without it, however, products don’t have good market fit, customers don’t get what they really need and the cost of customer acquisition and delivery is higher.
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- Entrepreneurship, Financial Inclusion
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‘Like Using a Wall to Stop a Runaway Bus’: Cambodian Microcredit is Overheated, But Rate Caps Aren’t the Answer
Daniel Rozas says a proposed interest rate cap of 18 percent on most new microloans in Cambodia will, if enforced, hurt the very people it ostensibly seeks to protect. Taking issue with a recent post by Milford Bateman, Rozas argues the cap would create a clear preference for certain types of lending and could heighten problems created by Cambodia's saturated microcredit market.
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- Financial Inclusion
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Demonetization brought out the best in Indian microfinance clients
Five months after demonetization, the uncertainty has started to fade.
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- Financial Inclusion
- Region
- South Asia
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