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Bamboo Capital Partners Exits Banco Popular After Triple-Digit Growth
Through its investment in Banco Popular in 2012, Bamboo has positively impacted the development of local microfinance companies in Honduras.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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India Donates USD 2.5 Million to Support Education, Healthcare of Palestinian Refugees
UNRWA services encompass education, health care, relief and social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, protection, and microfinance among Palestinian refugees.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance, migrants, refugees
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Friend or Foe to the World’s Poor? Settling the Microfinance Debate
Two stubbornly unresolved debates keep casting doubt on how much benefit microfinance brings to its customers.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Press Release: U.S. Government and Khushhali Microfinance Bank sign $25 Million Commitment to Empower Women and Micro and Small Businesses in Pakistan
The partnership will support micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs) and women-led businesses in Pakistan.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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CreditAccess Grameen Raises $35 Million ESG Loan From US International Development Finance Corp in India
The direct loan, CreditAccess said, is one of the first of its kind for DFC to a non-banking financial company microfinance institution (NBFC-MFI) in India.
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Zimbabwe’s InnBucks Gets Green Light to Resume Services
Zimbabwean mobile money platform, InnBucks, has resumed its service following its abrupt suspension by the country's central bank earlier this year.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Social Enterprises Struggle to Measure Impact – And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
Impact investors typically rely on output measurements, such as total capital invested or number of people served, to assess their impact. But it's harder for investors and their investees to sustainably capture outcome data that assesses actual improvements in customers' lives. Spencer MacColl at Kiva shares data from Kiva's annual impact measurement survey, which reflects the current measurement practices and challenges of the microfinance institutions and other social enterprises Kiva supports. He explores the lessons these findings offer to impact investors and others who are working to design more effective measurement practices.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Accomplishing the Impossible: Lessons on Scaling From BRAC Founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
Countless books and articles have addressed the challenges of going to scale in the development sector — yet a systematic approach to scaling remains out of reach. However, as Scott MacMillan at BRAC USA explains, BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was arguably more successful than anyone at scaling effective poverty programs. He shares insights from his new book on Abed's life and work, which sheds light on how BRAC has created and scaled programs to an extent that no other nonprofit or social enterprise has managed to achieve.
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- Education, Finance, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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