Archive for August, 2008

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

407 list of microfinance banks in nigeria?

full list of 407 registered microfinance banks
does this help?
http://allafrica.com/stories/200712121172.html

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

MABS Mobile Phone Banking for Microfinance

This video produced in late 2006 provides highlights of the early efforts to use mobile phones to facilitate banking services for rural bank clients in the Philippines. This effort has been led by the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (MABS) Program (a USAID-assist program with Chemonics International as [...]

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

What is Microfinance?

i need to know about microfinance in Russia
Microfinance is the provision of a broad range of financial services such as deposits, loans, payment services, money transfers. insurance to poor and low-income households and their microenterprises Three Types of Sources of Microfinance are formal institutions - i.e. rural banks and cooperatives semiformal institutions - i.e. [...]

Friday, August 29th, 2008

how can i get in contcact with microfinance agents in nigeria to enable me get a loan for my small business.?

i need the address and phone numbers of microfinance agents in nigeria
Try the government website; be careful

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Friday, August 29th, 2008

Open Source Micro Finance

This video describes a bit about the Grameen Foundation and their efforts to create an Open Source Software solution to facilitate the use of microfinance to alleviate worlds poverty.
Duration : 0:6:19

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Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Microfinance Club at School?

I'm interested in starting a microfinance oriented club at my highschool. I'd like to know if this is a good idea. Basically it would work by collecting donations and lending the money out. I know about Kiva.org so far and the Grameen Bank. Thanks.
What i meant by lending the money out is giving the money [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Do you know anything about to Microfinance?

Microfinance - is a term for the practice of providing financial services to poor people.
Read this for more information:
www.cgap.org/about/microfinance.html
Good Luck!

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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Microfinance - Investing for Social Impact

Live from Google:
Constructing Your Portfolio
Duration : 0:51:3

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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

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Monday, August 25th, 2008

what is the microfinance main objectives, history, and values?

Microfinance is making small loans to the very poor. It is generally done to encourage business development in very poor communities. It started being a significant movement with ACCION and Muhammad Yunus as two pilot projects in the 1970s. The post WWII Marshall plan included some microcredit aspects.

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