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03.16.2015
|Pi Slice celebrates its second year
Inspiring individuals and companies around the globe have funded over 200 micro-entrepreneurs through micro-loans over the past 24 months. That’s 200 small businesses created, 200 families ...
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01.14.2015
|What is the future of microfinance?
Financial inclusion in 10 years? The sector of inclusive finance will continue to expand beyond traditional microfinance institutions. New actors such as mobile operators and distribution ...
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10.29.2014
|Why are we going towards a green microfinance?
The impacts of climate change, pollution, waste and other environmental issues should be part of the long-term approach for businesses, organizations and institutions to allow a continued economic ...
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09.15.2014
|How data could help financial services for the poor
How data analysis can improve financial services for the poor? Mobile data can be as a solid base to record reliable information on the lives of poor populations . And, when combined with ...
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05.28.2014
|The impact of microcredit: new studies
Since then, several studies more or less serious had failed to get everyone to agree on the proven role of microcredit in poverty reduction. However, over the years, feedbacks from users and ...
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05.14.2014
|MENA: expanding financial inclusion via the operability of mobile money services
Collectively, these operators account for 582 million mobile connections across 48 countries in Africa and the Middle East. It is estimated that 2.5 billion people in lower to middle income ...
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04.24.2014
|Financial inclusion: a challenge for developing and developed countries
The link between financial inclusion and social inclusion Financial inclusion is a component of social inclusion (population access to basic services such as employment, health, housing or ...
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04.10.2014
|Al Majmoua becomes the first MIX S.T.A.R. MFI in MENA region
Yesterday, MIX congratulated the Lebanese Association for Development - Al Majmoua for its commitment to being socially transparent and responsible. They recognized Al Majmoua for completing MIX’s ...
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03.31.2014
|Microinsurance: between progress and future challenges
This one of the questions Craig Churchill, Head of the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility, tried to answer by studying the increasing value and viability of this assurance mechanism for ...
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03.04.2014
|The strong development of actors in mobile micro-insurance
There are five different business models in mobile micro-insurance: 1. Insurers that target new segments, especially with low revenus, thanks to new products developped for the mass market. ...
"The microfinance revolution is now"
Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance
Jacques Attali, President of PlaNet Finance
