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Microinsurance: Can the Cinderella of Financial Inclusion Join the Global Ball?
The global financial inclusion agenda continues to place insurance at the back of the queue when it comes to funding and broader financial inclusion strategies.
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Matt Damon Tries to Get Clean Water and Toilets for India’s Poor
Matt Damon finds it a challenge to get people to care about water. It’s why he was in India from Aug. 23 to 26 on a four-day tour. Not to promote his latest film Elysium, a sci-fi dystopia with a socialist underpinning, but to help the rural and urban poor in India get access to clean water and sanitation by investing in tube wells, hand pumps and toilets with proper drainage facilities.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Seminar on Islamic microfinance: SBP stresses upon Islamic finance industry to develop Islamic microfinance
State Bank of Pakistan has stressed upon the Islamic finance industry should take steps to make individual as well as collaborative efforts to develop Islamic microfinance in the country.
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Supporting Female Entrepreneurs : Together and A Loan
With more than 2 million youth members among its ranks, DoSomething is one of the largest organizations in the United States devoted to young people and social change, mobilizing activists to take on important social issues through innovative campaigns. Their latest effort, called 25,000 Women, harnesses Kiva’s microlending platform to support female entrepreneurs in El Salvador, Kenya, Mongolia, Pakistan and the Philippines.
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- Technology
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Rethinking microfinance’s role in fight against poverty
Much has been said about microfinance. Heralded once as the ultimate tool for alleviating poverty worldwide, it was badly hit by accusations of illegal and immoral practices in India’s Andhra Pradesh in 2010-2011 and, since then, has lost some of its shine.
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Vinod Khosla-backed Unitus Seed Fund to invest up to Rs 1 cr in Caravan Craft
Unitus Seed Fund, backed by marquee investor Vinod Khosla has made its third investment of the year, funding Bangalore-based Caravan Craft Retail, as capital flow increases for social ventures in areas beyond micro-finance.
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Rwanda: NGO, Micro-Finance Partner to Promote Savings for Education
GLOBAL COMMUNITIES, an international non-governmental organisation, in partnership with Duterimbere IMF, a local Micro-finance institution, has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging residents, especially parents, to save part of their income to educate their children.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rural Impulse Fund II and Agora Microfinance N.V. take equity stakes in AMK Cambodia
Antwerp/London, 08 August 2013 – Incofin IM’s Rural Impulse Fund II (RIF II) and Agora Microfinance N.V. (AMNV), a microfinance holding company, have both acquired significant minority stakes in the microfinance institution (MFI) AMK Cambodia. This well-established MFI is the country’s market leader in terms of both outreach and its application of social performance research.
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